Migrant Women Shout It Out Loud: The Integration/Participation Strategies and Sense of Home of First- and Second-Generation Women of Moroccan and Turkish Descent

This work dispels the myth that women of Moroccan and Turkish descent in the Netherlands are oppressed, nonintegrated victims, and shows that many women try to integrate, some explicitly because of, and not despite, their Islamic faith. This work shows that their definitions, needs, and strategies of integration, as well as their integration experiences, vary and that this variation is not reflected by policies and how society treats them, which hampers their integration. Furthermore the book discusses how many women do feel at home in the Netherlands and, the more they integrate, the greater their exposure to assimilative pressures, which can diminish their sense of home, thereby thwarting their integration process.