Larger extended Muslim families are portrayed as increasingly imprisoning for women

Evidence

If arranged marriages lead to immigration fraud and domestic violence, it is also clear that the Muslim family form of extended rather than nuclear families is itself bad for women. Storhaug contends: ‘All too many large extended families – and smaller families as well – unfortunately have histories much like that of Mina and her family. And it seems that the larger the family is, the more strongly fortified this negative pattern is. There is probably a connection here with the way in which the system of the extended family functions, both socially and legally, in these families’ homelands … The larger the family the more imprisoning it is.’ — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 264