dc.contributor |
University of London |
dc.contributor.advisor |
Mike Rowlands |
dc.contributor.author |
Ísberg, Nína Rós |
dc.date.accessioned |
2018-05-17T09:29:02Z |
dc.date.available |
2018-05-17T09:29:02Z |
dc.date.issued |
2010 |
dc.identifier.uri |
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/724 |
dc.description |
A thesis submitted for a final examination
for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology
as an External Student of the University of London |
dc.description.abstract |
The research is about the assimilation of women immigrants in Icelandic society
through domesticity and the home. The focus is on the material practices that act to
incorporate ‘foreign women’ into being Icelandic, accepting the ambivalence and
resistances that act to preserve certain emotional attachments to former identities whilst at
the same time considering the role of the senses and emotions in promoting
knowledgeable, gendered subjects capable of acting in changed circumstances. In
particular I look at the experience of immigrant women in making and running a home,
bringing up their children and how this experience is materialized in daily activities.
I focus on a group of German women who came to Iceland in 1949 to work,
especially in rural areas where cheap labour was needed. Many of them stayed, married
and established families and became Icelandic citizens. Immigration policies in Iceland
have been strongly assimilationist and therefore the research shows the effects this
assimilation has had on the identity of these women and what implications their identities
have for understanding Icelandic identity in general. Comparison of this group to another
younger one which has arrived in the last five to fifteen years makes apparent the role of
domesticity and kinship relations in assimilating immigrant women into the Icelandic
society.
The research is carried out according to standard anthropological techniques of
interviewing and participant observation. Archival and audio-video material is also used.
The material collected is put into historical and social context through a focus on oral
history and discussions of current memory work in anthropology and cultural Heritage
studies. |
dc.language.iso |
en |
dc.publisher |
University of London |
dc.rights |
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
dc.subject |
Mannfræði |
dc.subject |
Innflytjendur |
dc.subject |
Konur |
dc.subject |
Matarmenning |
dc.subject |
Siðvenjur |
dc.subject |
Doktorsritgerðir |
dc.title |
Migration and Cultural Transmission: Making a Home in Iceland |
dc.type |
info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis |