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Motives and Agency in Forced Marriage among the Urban Poor in Tanzania (2020)

Stark, L. (2020). Motives and Agency in Forced Marriage among the Urban Poor in Tanzania. Ethnos, 85(1), 124-144. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1559214

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Stark, Laura

Julkaisun tiedot

Julkaisun kaikki tekijät tai toimittajat: Stark, Laura

Lehti tai sarja: Ethnos

ISSN: 0014-1844

eISSN: 1469-588X

Julkaisuvuosi: 2020

Volyymi: 85

Lehden numero: 1

Artikkelin sivunumerot: 124-144

Kustantaja: Routledge

Julkaisumaa: Britannia

Julkaisun kieli: englanti

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1559214

Julkaisun avoin saatavuus: Avoimesti saatavilla

Julkaisukanavan avoin saatavuus: Osittain avoin julkaisukanava

Julkaisu on rinnakkaistallennettu (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/66879

Tiivistelmä

Using the method of third-person elicitation and 171 interviews in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I examine one form of forced marriage, ‘marriage on the mat’ (ndoa ya mkeka). In it, girls’ parents use the normative pressure of Islamic norms to circumvent the groom’s lack of consent to the marriage and promote their daughter’s future economic security. Premarital sex and forced marriage, rarely examined together, are often causally linked and provide strong motives for parents to resort to ndoa ya mkeka. In an urban context where girls’ and women’s income-earning possibilities are limited to transactional sex, marriage at a young age is often the only way to embody the culturally approved behaviours of both economic self-sufficiency and sexual modesty. Findings indicate that coercive practices do not necessarily rule out the agency of those coerced; similarly in forced marriage parents are not always oppressors and daughters are not always the victims.

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