Marital states : kinship, ethnicity, and gendered citizenship in Jordan
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Modern states increasingly rely on families to manage political and economic problems, such as migration and statelessness. This dissertation ethnographically examines how Jordan polices its borders by regulating the marital and reproductive choices of Jordanian women, showing that our understandings of the state cannot stand separate from analyses of gender and kinship. In Jordan, men can pass their citizenship to their children, but women can't. Dependent nationality results in the daily reproduction of statelessness in Jordan and beyond. Of the 15 million stateless people around the world, most become stateless not by moving but by getting married or being born into mixed-nationality families. This ethnography departs from existing analyses that probe statelessness solely through the prism of mobility. Jordan has become exemplary of a new paradigm. Waves of Syrian, Iraqi, and Palestinian refugees have made mixed-nationality marriages routine. The dissertation reveals that the categories of "refugee, " "stateless persons, " and even "citizen" are not self-evident. Faced with an inability to take care of all its citizens, the state intervenes in women's bodies to delineate an ever-narrowing definition of "citizen, " denationalizing swaths of the populace for which it has divested responsibility. This project contributes to anthropological, historical, and philosophical scholarship by analytically linking marriage and political sovereignty.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Pepi, Eda |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Thesis advisor | Yanagisako, Sylvia Junko, 1945- |
| Thesis advisor | Hansen, Thomas |
| Thesis advisor | Tambar, Kabir |
| Thesis advisor | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Degree committee member | Hansen, Thomas |
| Degree committee member | Tambar, Kabir |
| Degree committee member | Thiranagama, Sharika |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Eda Pepi. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
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- Copyright
- © 2018 by Eda Pepi
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