Although in the cities of the Northern African countries, changes start to happen in the role of women in society: women go to work, women decide freely who to marry, and women have a higher level of education than men, in a context of migration, women often live segregated: they don't attend the mosque to worship Allah (God), and they don't perform Islamic rituals. But, in my ethnographic work in the mosque of San Marcellino, a little town near Caserta, the women have broken with the traditional norms of segregation and participate in the life of the Islamic community: they attend the mosque on Friday, they perform Islamic rituals and they play an important role in the integration of the Islamic community with the local social environment.

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social segregation immigrant Eurasia Italy cultural tradition Europe Campania [Italy] Caserta Southern Europe womens status