The power of agency : transformation of gender roles and marital relations among Nigerian immigrant women in Lethbridge, Alberta

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dc.contributor.authorIlo, Semedeton
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorBonifacio, Glenda
dc.date.accessioned2016-01-07T19:09:54Z
dc.date.available2016-01-07T19:09:54Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractThis research explores the shifting subjectivities of eight Nigerian immigrant women as they negotiate gender roles and marital relations in Lethbridge. Using the Gendered Geographies of Power framework, this study uncovers a reflexive relationship between the social location of participants, and the type and degree of agency that they display as immigrant women, mothers, and wives, within geographies that include, the Canadian labour market, extended family networks in Nigeria, and nuclear households in Canada. Overall, findings show that by demonstrating agency, participants were able to appropriate social-cultural realities of migration and transnational living for the transformation of marital relations in ways that promoted gendered wellbeing and positioning within their marriages.en_US
dc.embargoNoen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/3858
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.proquest.subject0453en_US
dc.proquest.subject0628en_US
dc.proquest.subject0631en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Women and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Women and Gender Studiesen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectegalitarian societyen_US
dc.subjectgender rolesen_US
dc.subjectimmigrantsen_US
dc.subjectmarital relationsen_US
dc.subjectNigerian womenen_US
dc.subjecttraditional societyen_US
dc.titleThe power of agency : transformation of gender roles and marital relations among Nigerian immigrant women in Lethbridge, Albertaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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