Provide a 40 pages analysis while answering the following question: Qualitative Study on Muslim Women’s Experience on Wearing Hijaab in British Society: A Psychosocial Proposal. Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide. An abstract is required. The interviews were recorded in locations comfortable for the interviewees in locations in East London. Four interviews were conducted with each subject, and it was felt that 30-45 minutes per meeting should be the maximum time spent. Questions were left as open-ended as possible, to prompt more spontaneous and free-flowing opinions and expression of emotion. The opening information gathering questions are summarised at the opening of each interviewee’s transcript, rather than transcribed in detail. *Names were selected by the interviewees to preserve their anonymity. Only these first names were substituted into the transcripts. Interviewee 1 (Sajidah*) 6 November 2011. 10:00 to 11:12. 9 November 2011. 15:00-15:40. 10 November 2011. 15:00-15:35 Summary of personal details and history shared by the interviewee: 20 year-old student, completing a degree in social sciences, with the intention to be a social worker. Completing the second year of her course at a university about 20 minutes from her home. She uses public transport or walks to the university. Sajidah is from a fairly conservative, traditional Muslim family. she is the only daughter and has 2 brothers, one older and one younger. The family is financially lower-middle class and is close-knit. The family socialises mainly with other Muslim families in the area. Sajidah is expected to marry a Muslim man from an acceptable family as soon as she completes her studies. The family has been in East London for three generations and the extended family all live within four streets in the area. The extended family consists of 3 first generation aunts, 4 second generation aunts and 11 cousins. The extended family have all contributed to the studies of Sajidah and 2 other male cousins who qualified for tertiary education. Sajidah describes herself as a friendly, religious woman who has strong opinions about the world. She says she is happy in her life, and is looking forward to being able to work to help people in her chosen career as a social worker. She gets on very well with her parents and loves her brothers. She doesn’t feel that she is oppressed as a Muslim woman and says that she feels very free within her family and social and cultural circles. She enjoyed school and performed well academically – she feels privileged to be able to be one of the first members of her family to attend a university. She is also the first woman to attend university, ever, in her family. The pressure she feels is from the desire not to disappoint her family or community – she says that they have sacrificed a lot to give her the opportunity she is now enjoying. She has a few close friends, divided into her community friends – other Muslim young women, and female cousins and young aunts – and her friends at university – again mostly other young women (Muslim) studying at the same institution. She has a good friend at university who is not Muslim – a Catholic – and she says that this is the first time she has had a close friend outside her faith. Sajidah was quite keen to be interviewed and spoke freely. She seems to be developing a political sense of Islam and did on occasion refer to her understanding of her religion as having a political aspect.
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