Religion og deltakelse: Moskeen som kjønnet arena

The article discusses the participation of immigrant Muslim women in mosques in Oslo. Muslim women have to relate to a religiously given patriarchal structure, but are also actors that can make choices and take advantage of possibilities that challenge patriarchal gender regimes. At times, complex and contradictory processes increase the participation of women, while at other times they constrain women’s activities through various forms of discipline and control. The study shows that immigrant women are decisive for the building of religious institutions among Muslim migrants in diaspora, and that women tend to achieve greater space and be included in more varied forms of participation in the mosque after migration. Despite signs of increased participation by women, the mosque may still be described as a patriarchal gender regime where such participation to a large extent depends on the goodwill of men

Religion, Citizenship and Participation

This article analyses the increasing participation of Muslim women in mosques in Norway in light of current discourses on citizenship, gender and migration. It discusses how various processes in the mosques can be interpreted as contradictory and complex by sometimes increasing the participation of women and promoting liberation, while at other times constraining women'ss activities through various forms of discipline and control. Women are vital for the building of religious institutions among Muslim immigrant communities, and they are slowly achieving more space in such institutions. They are also being included in new forms of participation in some mosques. Recently, some Muslim women in Norway have made public calls for the reinterpretation of the Qur'an in ways that are more inclusive towards women. Despite pressures from both within and outside the mosques, however, Muslim congregations in Norway can still be described as patriarchal gender regimes where the participation and citi- zenship of women depends on the willingness of men to include them

Conceptualizing lived religious citizenship: a case-study of Christian and Muslim women in Norway and the United Kingdom

This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Citizenship Studies on 31st July 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/13621025.2015.1049979.The concept of ‘religious citizenship’ is increasingly being used by scholars, but there are few attempts at defining it. This article argues that rights-based definitions giving primacy to status and rights are too narrow, and that feminist approaches to citizenship foregrounding identity, belonging and participation, as well as an ethics of care, provide a more comprehensive understanding of how religious women understand and experience their own ‘religious citizenship’. Findings from interviews with Christian and Muslim women in Oslo and Leicester suggest a close relationship between religious women’s faith and practice (‘lived religion’) and their ‘lived citizenship’. However, gender inequalities and status differences between majority and minority religions produce challenges to rights-based approaches to religious citizenship

Innvandrerorganisasjoner i Norge

Rapporten formidler kunnskap om innvandrerforeningenes utbredelse, utforming og virkemåte, og analyserer i hvilken grad de spiller en rolle i politiske prosesser. De fleste innvandrerforeninger er lokalt baserte og er opptatt av medlemmenes sosiale og kulturell behov. Men foreningene er også opptatt av storsamfunnet og er engasjert i samarbeid med andre frivillige foreninger og offentlige institusjoner. Tilknyttet prosjekt Politisk deltakelse og organisering i det flekulturelle Norg

Emma Dahl: contesting the patriarchal gender regime of the Norwegian missionary society in Madagascar

Emma Dahl: contesting the patriarchal gender regime of the Norwegian missionary society in Madagasca

Mellom konflikt og integrasjon

Rapporten gir en evaluering av Kontaktutvalget mellom innvandrere og myndighetene (KIM). KIM er et statlig, regjeringsoppnevnt utvalg, som består av representanter for innvandrerorganisasjoner, politiske partier og offentlig forvaltning. Evalueringen fokuserer på hvordan Kontaktutvalget fyller sine tiltenkte roller som rådgivende organ og forum for dialog. Evalueringen diskuterer hvilke faktorer som kan sies å fremme eller hemme utvalgets måloppnåelse. Videre skisseres det noen mulige endringer i forhold til fremtidig oppnevnelse av utvalget

Dette nummers samlede anmeldelser

I dette nummer er følgnde bøger blevet anmeldt:Hilda Rømer Christensen, Beatrice Halsaa, and Aino Saarinen (eds.): Crossing Borders. Remapping Women’s Movements at the Turn of the 21st Century. University Press of Southern Denmark, 2004.Drude Dahlerup (red.): Women, Quotas and Politics, Routledge, 2006.Jørgen Lorentzen och Claes Ekenstam (red.): Män i Norden. Manlighet och modernitet 1840-1940. Gidlunds förlag, 2006.Cecilie Nørgaard og Bonnie Vittrup: Skolens bog om køn og ligestilling. Informations forlag, 2006.Helle Poulsen: The Elusive Gender. The International Labour Organization and the Construction of Gender Equality. Ph.d.-afhandling, Statskundskab, Københavns Universitet, 2006

The Social Fund: Current role and future direction

This report considers the role of the discretionary Social Fund in combating poverty and possible reforms to the scheme. It is mainly based upon secondary analysis of the Family Resources Survey and the Expenditure and Food Survey and qualitative research with benefit recipients: both discretionary Social Fund applicants and nonapplicants, and people from a range of socio-economic backgrounds. Participants in the qualitative research discussed times of particular financial hardship, experiences of the Social Fund and possible reforms to the Social Fund