Masculinity in the Sikh community in Italy and Spain : expectations and challenges
Garha, Nachatter Singh (Centre d'Estudis Demogràfics)

Date:	2020
Abstract:	Since the 1990s, the Sikh community in India has entered a phase of considerable socioeconomic and demographic transformation that is caused by the large-scale practice of female feticide, the spread of higher education among women, and the mass emigration of unskilled men to the Western countries. These changes have a great impact on the traditional configuration of gender roles and disrupt the construction of masculinity in the Sikh community in India and in the diaspora. Based on ethnographic observations and 64 in-depth interviews with Sikh immigrants in Spain (26) and Italy (22) and their relatives in India (16), this paper first explores the expectations of masculinity in the Sikh community in Italy and Spain; and second, analyses the challenges that are imposed by the socioeconomic and demographic transformation in the Indian Sikh community and the social environment in the host countries on the construction of masculinity in the Sikh community in both countries.
Grants:	Agencia Estatal de Investigación CSO2017-85670-R
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Sikh religion ; Masculinity ; Gender roles ; Women's education ; Diaspora
Published in:	Religions, Vol. 11 Núm. 2 (2020) , ISSN 2077-1444

DOI: 10.3390/rel11020076

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