Doing ‘dangerous’ autoethnography on Islamophobic victimization

Zempi, Irene; Awan, Imran

doi:10.1177/1466138117697996

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“…The overt and profound hostility to hijab-wearing women in England in street-level interactions has been described by ethnographers (Zempi and Awan 2017); public hostility, combined with "private hostility" on the part of employers, may have profoundly negative consequences for "quiet civility", the manner that Muslim immigrants and their children traditionally bring to British society (Al-Refai and Bagley 2012). …”

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Methodology of Correspondence Testing for Employment Discrimination Involving Ethnic Minority Applications: Dutch and English Case Studies of Muslim Applicants for Employment

Abubaker

Bagley

2017

Social Sciences

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Abstract:We comment on methodological issues in the use of correspondence testing for discrimination in access to employment-that of submitting identical CVs to employers, but differing by the name (implying their ethnicity) of the candidate. After contrasting changing social structures in Britain and The Netherlands regarding ethnicity and Muslim integration, we report two case studies using correspondence testing for discrimination in employment involving a Muslim woman (in Manchester, England) and a Muslim man (in Rotterdam, Netherlands), outlining the recent socio-political situation concerning ethnic relations in The Netherlands. The methods used indicated apparent discrimination in employment involving both applicants. However, the novel methods we have employed require further verification using both traditional and novel methodologies. Findings from the two case studies are discussed and compared, with further research proposed.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodology of Correspondence Testing for Employment Discrimination Involving Ethnic Minority Applications: Dutch and English Case Studies of Muslim Applicants for Employment

Abubaker

Bagley

2017

Social Sciences

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“…One continuing debate regards researchers' statuses as 'insiders' -those who study populations who are similar to themselves -or 'outsiders' -those who study populations who differ from themselves -influence their work (Young Jr, 2008;Innes, 2009;Davis, 1997, Aguilar, 1981. Although we all retain both characteristics because we have multiple statuses (Merton, 1972) and can experience a handful of 'insider moments' with participants (May, 2014) and/or being the 'outsider within' (Collins, 1986;Zempi and Awan, 2017), social science researchers have a long history of focusing on how one or two of their traits compare to their participants (e.g. Meyerhoff, 1980;Duneier, 1999).…”

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Ethnographic toolkit: Strategic positionality and researchers’ visible and invisible tools in field research

Reyes

2018

Ethnography

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For many, reflexivity is a core tenet in qualitative research. Often, scholars focus on how one or two of their socio-demographic traits compare to their participants and how it may influence field dynamics. Research that incorporates an intersectionality perspective, which brings attention to how people’s multiple identities are entwined, also has a long history. Yet, researchers tend to pay less attention to how we strategically draw on our multiple social positions in the course of field work. Drawing on data I have collected over the past several years and extending recent sociological work that goes beyond a reflexive accounting of one or two of researchers’ demographic characteristics, I argue that each researcher has their own ethnographic toolkit from which they strategically draw. It consists of researchers’ visible (e.g. race/ethnicity) and invisible tools (e.g. social capital) and ties qualitative methodologies to research on how culture is strategically and inconsistently used.

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“…Resistance to stigma is discursive and performative. White supremacy prevails in society to position non-white persons in inferior and deviant categories (Zempi and Awan, 2017). I suspect that his desire to construct my visible Muslim and non-white identity as ‘deviant’ acted as a way to reinforce his hierarchical superior position by way of subordinating and emasculating me through discourse.…”

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Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’

Javaid

2019

Sexualities

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I demonstrate the ways in which constructions of knowledge about sexual violence metaphorically and symbolically transpose stigma onto me for researching a stigmatized topic. In every human interaction, we all run the risk of stigma. I was stigmatized for revealing my association with the topic of sexual violence. In this article, I detail certain encounters of running into this stigma, using autoethnography. Drawing on Sara Ahmed’s poetic writings in this piece, to name a problem as a problem is to become a problem; the problems I highlight in my life turn me into a problem. I provide some of the implications that developed from highlighting such problems, such as suffering disbelieving and hostile attitudes and responses, rape threats, and derogatory comments from the wider society. I offer suggestions for other gender and sexuality writers as to how to reduce or manage stigma from looming large, for to not do so, one could be susceptible to ongoing abuse, derogatory and degrading comments, and, in some cases, threats of – and actual – violence and abuse.

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Doing ‘dangerous’ autoethnography on Islamophobic victimization

Cited by 21 publications

References 49 publications

Methodology of Correspondence Testing for Employment Discrimination Involving Ethnic Minority Applications: Dutch and English Case Studies of Muslim Applicants for Employment

Methodology of Correspondence Testing for Employment Discrimination Involving Ethnic Minority Applications: Dutch and English Case Studies of Muslim Applicants for Employment

Ethnographic toolkit: Strategic positionality and researchers’ visible and invisible tools in field research

Reconciling an irreconcilable past: Sexuality, autoethnography, and reflecting on the stigmatization of the ‘unspoken’

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