About migrantfeminist
“As one learns to look at this world through feminist eyes, one learns to ask whether anything that passes for inevitable, inherent, ‘traditional’ or biological has in fact been made. One begins to ask how all sorts of things have been made – a treeless landscape, a rifle-wielding police force, the ‘Irishman joke’, an all-women typing pool” – Cynthia Enloe
Welcome to migrantfeminist!
My name is Noor Jdid. When I was a little girl I used to come home from school with scabby knees, I threatened my parents to “get lost”, and I dreamed to be a cowboy. Today I am more preoccupied with gender and identity formation, migration and citizenship. I work at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) as a Doctoral Researcher, doing research on active citizenship in religiously and culturally diverse societies.
My MA-thesis was a study of identity conflicts and belonging among second generation female migrants in Norway, looking at dominant identity discourses through a feminist lens within the home and the Norwegian nation-state contexts. The thesis has been published as a monograph through LIT Verlag and is available for sale.
Through writing, professional work and volunteering I focus mainly on issues regarding minorities, identity, and societal conflict transformation. This blog will include topics related to gender and migration. As I would like to have an international audience, I will be using English as the main language. Due to time limitation I may not have the time to translate all my posts to Norwegian.
To my visitors, I invite you to freely engage in the discussions and offer insights to foster knowledge, understanding, and creativity. Question everything but do so in a thought-provoking way, not in a way that makes anyone react defensively. Please share any links, personal stories, research or relevant information you may have on a given topic. The purpose of this blog is to share, learn, and figure out how to inspire change in each other and in the world.
