Khan, Asma
2024.
How do religious beliefs impact economic inactivity among British-Pakistani Muslim women?
Ethnic and Racial Studies
47
(4)
, pp. 763-784.
10.1080/01419870.2023.2231522
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Abstract
This article explores the relationship between economic inactivity and religiosity. The aim of the analysis of qualitative data presented here is to examine whether, and how, religious beliefs impact on decisions British-Pakistani Muslim women make about economic activity. Analysis of interview data reveals that none of the interviewees held the belief that economic activity was impermissible (haram) for women in Islam. However, some interviewees held religiously-informed beliefs that paid employment was undesirable, with marked differences in attitudes to economic activity by both age and migrant generation. Alongside this, interviewee s described structural constraints to economic activity, for example, limited opportunities for well-paid, local, part-time work. Overall, religious beliefs emerge as significant in the lives of Muslim women because they allow them to make sense of, and find value in, their marginalised positions in relation to the labour market rather than as drivers of economic inactivity.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | History, Archaeology and Religion |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Labour market inequalities, Muslim penalty, religion and the labour market, British Muslims in the labour market, religion and economic inactivity, British Muslim women |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
ISSN: | 1466-4356 |
Funders: | Jameel Educational Foundation |
Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 4 September 2023 |
Date of Acceptance: | 30 May 2023 |
Last Modified: | 20 Mar 2024 16:35 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/162116 |
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