Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws

Rottmann, Susan Beth; Ferree, Myra Marx

doi:10.1093/sp/jxn017

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“…These studies of Islam in immigrant-receiving societies have paid close attention 'to the relationship between religion and power, to the ways in which religion marks the contours of inequality, and to the ways in which attributions of belonging and non-belonging are still coded through religion even within post-secular societies' (Permose 2014). Migration and citizenship scholars have exposed the ways in which religion serves as an axis of inclusion and exclusion in societies that, even when purportedly 'secular,' remain shaped by Christianity (Rottmann and Ferree 2008;Korteweg and Yurdakul 2009;Adamson, Triadafilopoulos, and Zolberg 2011;Korteweg and Triadafilopoulos 2013). In this issue, Catherine Dauvergne (2020) moves the discussion of the relationship between Islam and the West beyond Europe by examining the gendered ways in which immigration law has responded to two threats commonly associated with fundamentalist Islam: terrorism and forced marriage.…”

Section: Intersecting Social Hierarchies and The Politics Of Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discrimination in migration and citizenship

Ellermann

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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After decades of scholarly optimism that the immigration reforms that swept across the Global North in the postwar era had ushered in a new age of non-discriminatory migration policy, recent scholarship has challenged this narrative. This Special Issue offers an empirical and normative contribution to this critical turn in migration studies by examining the multiple ways in which immigration and citizenship policy continues to create hierarchies among migrants that mirror the intersection of non-meritocratic attributes of social group membership. We show that access to territory and citizenship is governed by highly differentiated legal distinctions that closely map onto social identities such as gender, race/ethnicity, nationality, religion, and class. This introduction maps two important and interrelated developments in the literature which this issue engages. First, the 'politics of belonging' remains shaped by the intersection of multiple axes of inclusion and exclusion that are (re)produced by immigration and citizenship policy. Second, whereas legal precarity has long been associated with undocumented and temporary immigration status, over the past two decades precarity has penetrated all immigration status, including those that have long been understood as secure. The article concludes with an overview of the Special Issue's individual contributions and identifies some remaining research needs.

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Section: Intersecting Social Hierarchies and The Politics Of Belongingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Discrimination in migration and citizenship

Ellermann

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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“…Rudd (2000) described both men and women in the former East Germany as sharing an understanding of their family relations as having been utterly undercut by the new capitalist order. Contested discourses over “traditional marriage” in the United States and “veiling” in Western Europe provide other rich examples of intersectional relationships of inequality in struggles over the role of the state in regulating gender, sexuality, and culturally valued family practices (Heath, 2009; Rottmann & Ferree, 2008).…”

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Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families

Ferree¹

2010

J of Marriage and Family

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The challenge feminist scholarship posed to family studies has been largely met through the incorporation of research on gender dynamics within families and intersectional differences among them. Despite growing attention to gender as performance and power in more diverse families, the more difficult work of understanding the dynamics of change among institutions including the family and using intersectional analyses to unpack relationships of power is only beginning. Reviewing the contributions researchers have made in these areas over the last decade and applying the idea of circuits to the study of care work, this article points to promising practices for both improving research on gender and families and contributing to the slow drip of institutional change.

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“…While feminist critics of Muslim women's head coverings do not characterize the practice as evil, they do typically consider it to be a symbol of Muslim women's lack of agency and their subordination to Islamic patriarchal norms (see Rottmann and Ferree 2008). From this perspective, a ban on head coverings is justified on grounds of gender equality and protecting Muslim women from oppression.…”

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“…These bans raise interesting questions from the perspective of intersectionality (Crenshaw 1991;Rottmann and Ferree 2008). How do non-Muslim women view bans on Muslim women's head coverings?…”

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Freedom of religion, women's agency and banning the face veil: the role of feminist beliefs in shaping women's opinion

O’Neill¹,

Gidengil²,

Côté³

et al. 2014

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Several countries have imposed bans on the wearing of face veils, a controversial option considered in Bill 94 by the province of Quebec in 2010. This paper examines non-Muslim women's support for the acceptability of the niqab in public spaces. Analysing the 2010 Quebec Women's Political Participation Survey, we find that key feminist arguments -that wearing the niqab is a woman's free choice, a matter of freedom of religion and a visible symbol of women's oppression -are important drivers of opinion. Their role in shaping opinion, however, is complex and mirrors divisions among feminist groups in the province. Additional attitudinal drivers include generation, exposure to the practice and openness to immigration. Equally important, our findings suggest that being a member of a racial minority, feelings of cultural insecurity and religiosity are of little consequence for thinking on the issue.

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Citizenship and Intersectionality: German Feminist Debates about Headscarf and Antidiscrimination Laws

Cited by 45 publications

References 12 publications

Discrimination in migration and citizenship

Discrimination in migration and citizenship

Filling the Glass: Gender Perspectives on Families

Freedom of religion, women's agency and banning the face veil: the role of feminist beliefs in shaping women's opinion

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