ABSTRACT
Cities of the contemporary world have been affected and shaped by globalisation and, as this process continues, national and international immigration has led to an increase in ethnic and cultural diversity. Accordingly, groups from different ethnicities, religions, languages, and cultures have come to live in the same spatial context. Gender and ethnic minority groups are considered to be the subjects of exclusion by the mainstream cultures in culturally diverse societies. Amongst them are immigrant women from non-Western countries living in Western countries whose everyday life experience are considered as a ‘struggle to survive’ in their ‘places of resistance’. Founded on an extensive fieldwork study drawing from my doctoral thesis, this chapter discusses how eight immigrant women from Afghanistan (re)create their own living places within the places of locals through their life experiences in the global city of Auckland in New Zealand.
