Between Islamophobia and Post-Feminist Agency: Intersectional Trouble in the European Face-Veil Bans

Taramundi, Dolores Morondo

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“…Whereas much has been written about migrants' visibility-most notably in relation to gendered and religious attributes such as the veil (e.g. Ahmed, 2003;Amir-Moazami, Jacobsen and Malik, 2011;Korteweg and Yurdakul, 2014;Morondo Taramundi, 2015)-the multiple and complex layers of migrants' invisibility invite further exploration. Migrants' in/visibility is not clear-cut: it differs across various locations and, as such, demands a comparative, intersectional analysis.…”

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Other Mothers: Encountering In/Visible Femininities in Migration and Urban Contexts

Lisiak

2017

Feminist Review

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Whereas much has been written about migrants’ visibility, the multiple and complex layers of migrants’ invisibility invite further exploration. Migrants’ in/visibility is not clear-cut: it differs across various locations and, as such, demands a comparative, intersectional analysis. This paper seeks to explore it by investigating how recent migrants make sense of their own appearance, as well as those of others they encounter in their new places of residence. Specifically, I inquire into the notion of femininity as it is performed and perceived by Polish migrant mothers living in German and British cities. I discuss whose performances of femininity are visible and whose femininity is rendered invisible in the eyes of my research participants, and what implications this may carry for urban and migration research. Strikingly, the women I interviewed only seem to recognise white British and German women's performances of femininity for what they are. Non-white and Muslim femininities remain, at best, invisible or, in the not infrequent cases of racism and Islamophobia, are stripped not only of their unique gendered features, but of humanity altogether. As seemingly peaceful interactions in urban space do not exclude privately harboured racial, ethnic, religious and class prejudice, a feminist revision of encounters with diversity provides valuable insight into the structure of such metropolitan paradoxes, yielding new understandings of how racism, classism and sexism persist alongside ostensibly inclusive urban cultures.

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Other Mothers: Encountering In/Visible Femininities in Migration and Urban Contexts

Lisiak

2017

Feminist Review

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“…For example, Muslim youth are studied and understood as "integrated" (whether migrants or citizens) if their beliefs and practices conform to certain "liberal" values. Preoccupation with Muslim European women's autonomy as part of such liberal values continues, despite mounting feminist scholarship that contests the link between religion or religiosity and women's oppression, and asks for redirected attention to broader intersectional dimensions (Taramundi 2015). Essentially, in framing academic discussions in terms of religious freedom and gender equality exclusive to what is "liberal", or "European", problematic racial inequalities are side-stepped.…”

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European Muslim Youth and Gender (in)Equality Discourse: Towards a More Critical Academic Inquiry

Boland¹

2021

Social Sciences

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In Europe, gender equality can be framed as a secular value, juxtaposed against affiliation with and practice of Islam. Academic and public debate has either given special attention to the spread of religious fundamentalism in Europe, or to the way Muslim women dress, citing how both purportedly jeopardize gender equality. This is despite findings that a link between gender equality and religiosity or practice of Islam is neither inherent nor circumscribed. Moreover, it is possible to demonstrate that such discourse rests on implicitly racialized conceptualizations of the Muslim “other”. Meanwhile, Muslim youth in particular are benchmarked against these imagined standards of gender equality, as compared with non-Muslim peers. This work examines ways in which normative secular frameworks and discourses, taking ownership of gender equality narratives, have shaped Europe’s academic inquiry regarding Muslim youth. It notes what is absent in this inquiry, including intersections of race and class, which remain divorced from the limited conversation on gender and religious difference. A reflexive, intersectional approach to this discussion, conscious of the importance of embedded racial or structural inequality and what is absent in current inquiry, better serves in understanding and navigating power relations that ultimately contribute to multiple exclusion of these youth.

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“…Men with beard, veiled women, and a Middle Eastern look tend to lead people to think about Islam and terrorism. Physical appearance affects people at the first sight and gives impact on social interaction, mainly aftermath the tragedy of 9/11 (Fitriyani et al, 2015;Murti, 2019;Taramundi, 2015). The phenomenon of Islamophobia leads to the existence of global islamophobia (Hafez, 2020).…”

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Islamophobia in an American studies approach as seen in Donald Trump�s speech documentary videos

Kasiyarno

Murwantono

2022

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Donald Trump�s rhetoric in his campaign was markedly different, his speeches on Islamophobia and anti-immigrant rhetoric became a big issue. Trump used the rhetoric of fear to induce his followers against Muslims and immigrants by linking to both groups with the terrorism issue. This article has aims to analyse Trump�s speeches for protecting American people surrounded by the terror threat through an American studies framework.� This research was under descriptively qualitative research supported by an interdisciplinary approach of American Studies. Theory of Conservatism and theory of Discursive Psychology were used to analyse American experiences of Islamophobia as seen from Donald Trump�s speeches of documentary videos as the primary data. The completion of this research shows that American conservatives in the era of Donald Trump were strongly enough and the discourse psychological approach was designed to persuade. The discursive approach also allows for an understanding of how American identity, history, and values are both invoked and constructed. It is like American identity of conservatives who are proud of their nationality of Americans.

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Between Islamophobia and Post-Feminist Agency: Intersectional Trouble in the European Face-Veil Bans

Cited by 8 publications

References 31 publications

Other Mothers: Encountering In/Visible Femininities in Migration and Urban Contexts

Other Mothers: Encountering In/Visible Femininities in Migration and Urban Contexts

European Muslim Youth and Gender (in)Equality Discourse: Towards a More Critical Academic Inquiry

Islamophobia in an American studies approach as seen in Donald Trump�s speech documentary videos

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