Identity and gender in cultural transitions: Returning home from higher education as 'internal immigration' among Bedouin and Druze women in Israel

Social Identities

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 665-682

  Abu Rabia Queder, Sarab ^a   Weiner Levy, Naomi ^b  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b The David Yellin College of Education   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bedouin; Cultural transition; Druze; Higher education; Identity; Women

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL CHANGE; CULTURAL IDENTITY; GENDER IDENTITY; HIGHER EDUCATION; IMMIGRATION; INTERNAL MIGRATION; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 57049132213     PISSN: 13504630     EISSN: 13630296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13504630802462778     Document Type: Article

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