Marital instability among British Pakistanis: Transnationality, conjugalities and Islam

Ethnic and Racial Studies

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 261-279

  Qureshi, Kaveri ^a   Charsley, Katharine ^b   Shaw, Alison ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Political and International Studies   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

diaspora; divorce; kinship; marriage; Pakistani Muslims; transnational

Indexed keywords

DIASPORA; DIVORCE; ISLAMISM; KINSHIP; MARRIAGE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84890688572     PISSN: 01419870     EISSN: 14664356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2012.720691     Document Type: Article

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