Paper short abstract:

This article looks at how an Islamic student dorm for females shapes gender identities in the case of minority Turkish-Dutch youngsters in higher education in the Netherlands.

Paper long abstract:

This article looks at gender practices at an Islamic student dorm in the Netherlands, for Turkish female students. Following Scott's theory of reinventive institutions, we argue the dorm is a reinventive social institution: reinventing and claiming the identities of its members, with the promise of Islamic self-development and ethical fulfillment. Gender practices become all the more stringent when people are held accountable by an institution.