Coming of Age on Bangladesh Avenue: The Remaking of Love, Kinship and Property in Detroit
[Thesis]
Sunanda Samaddar
Varenne, Herve
Columbia University
2015
224
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-339-18604-7
Ph.D.
TC: Comparative and International Education
Columbia University
2015
Encompassing transnational practices of marriage and kinship within the scope of domestic research provides a critical vantage point by which to examine how families are able to access, value and use education. Exploring arranged marriage as a register for larger social formations, this 2 year study shadowed the lives of Bangladeshi ESL students attending high school in Detroit's inner city. As a 'Coming of Age' ethnography, this study examined the life trajectories of working class Muslim students navigating between the institutions of transnational kinship and the Detroit Public Schools.
Cultural anthropology; Educational sociology
Social sciences;Education;Bangladesh;Detroit public schools;Kinship;Multiculturalism;Muslims;Working class