This study aims to understand the lived experience of veiled Muslim women who are residing in Fin... more This study aims to understand the lived experience of veiled Muslim women who are residing in Finland. To do this, I carried out an interview-based fieldwork so as to get the meanings and perceptions these veiled women convey and carry within them. By interviewing ten veiled women, I have gathered their shared perceptions that tend to deny the rigidity of veil and counter the normative understanding of it in European society. So, this study finds out how veil creates the possibility of different forms of identities based on the veiled women's experiences which counter the established linear meaning of veil and generate an inherently ambiguous relationship between the meanings and experiences of veil.
This study aims to understand the lived experience of veiled Muslim women who are residing in Fin... more This study aims to understand the lived experience of veiled Muslim women who are residing in Finland. To do this, I carried out an interview-based fieldwork so as to get the meanings and perceptions these veiled women convey and carry within them. By interviewing ten veiled women, I have gathered their shared perceptions that tend to deny the rigidity of veil and counter the normative understanding of it in European society. So, this study finds out how veil creates the possibility of different forms of identities based on the veiled women's experiences which counter the established linear meaning of veil and generate an inherently ambiguous relationship between the meanings and experiences of veil.
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