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Racialized Bodies, Disabling Worlds: Storied Lives of Immigrant Muslim Women

Parin Dossa Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009 Reviewed by Onur Kovanci Dr. Parin Dossa, a Professor of Anthropology at Simon Fraser University, British Colombia treats her readers to another intriguing and insightful book after her first book, Politics and …

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Politics and Poetics of Migration: Narratives of Iranian Women from the Diaspora

Parin Dossa, Canadian Scholars Press, 2004 Reviewed by Rose Wishall Ediger, graduate student in Anthropology at American University Interested in mental health and displacement, in Politics and Poetics of Migration Dossa focuses on Iranian women who moved to British Columbia …

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Birthing the Nation: Strategies of Palestinian Women in Israel

Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh,University of California Press, 2002 Reviewed by Anuradha Saxena As Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza move from revolutionary movement to statehood in their quest for national identity, Kanaaneh’s work provides a valuable insight into how, and …

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