Dutch Women are Liberated, Migrant Women are a Problem: The Evolution of Policy Frames on Gender and Migration in the Netherlands, 1995–2005

Abstract

Over the past decade, there has been a major shift in Dutch gender equality policy to an almost exclusive focus on migrant women. Simultaneously, the focus of 'minority policies' has shifted more and more towards gender relations. The appearance of migrant women at the top of the political agenda is remarkable. In this article we examine how this construction of migrant women as a political problem has come about, and consider its implications. As we argue, the dominant policy frames of emancipation and individual responsibility are reinforcing a dichotomy between the autochthonous 'us' and the allochthonous 'them'. As the problem is increasingly defined as a cultural one, it is implicitly stated that there is no problem with the dominant culture and society. Barriers for participation are exclusively located in the migrant (Muslim) culture. In this view, Muslim migrants should first change their culture before they can fully integrate in Dutch society.

Aplicación del mainstreaming de género en las organizaciones a través de las certificaciones

“…Algo que comparten las publicaciones de entidades públicas y privadas es la falta de visualización del enfoque de interseccionalidad, e incluso, del propio término como tal. Numerosas aportaciones (Oliveira & Araujo, 2014;Rodríguez, 2010;Roggeband & Verloo, 2007;Verloo, 2006Verloo, , 2015 ponen de manifiesto que la interseccionalidad es una variable que debe abordarse, sin ninguna duda, como esencial para aplicar la perspectiva de género no sólo en el contexto de las organizaciones, sino también, en cualquier otro ámbito.…”

“…Este enfoque estratégico, se basa en las propuestas teóricas que cuestionan el carácter estructural del origen y mantenimiento de las desigualdades de género. En este artículo tomamos como referentes a Verloo y Roggeband (Roggeband & Verloo, 2007;Verloo & Roggeband, 1996) que manifiestan que los desequilibrios entre mujeres y hombres se deben a causas derivadas del orden social patriarcal, vinculadas a las estructuras básicas de la desigualdad y a sus mecanismos de reproducción.…”

Integrationen och arbetets marknad: Hur jämställdhet, arbete och annat "svenskt" görs av arbetsförmedlare och privata aktörer

“…I en del länder kommer dessa program tillsammans med tester kopplade till medborgarskap och i andra utgör de till och med krav för uppehållstillstånd. Som exempel kan nämnas olika former av integrationskontrakt som finns i bland annat Danmark och Nederländerna där "invandrare" får underteckna kontrakt om vad som förväntas av dem och vilka rättigheter och skyldigheter de har gentemot välfärdsstaten (Joppke 2007a, Roggeband & Verloo 2007, Siim 2007, Siim 2010.…”

Religion in Meaning Making and Boundary Work: Theoretical Explorations

“…The most prominent example might be Islam which, in the general discourse, appears alternately as a problem for security and linked to terrorism (Bhatia, 2007), or as an obtacle for migrant integration and a peril for gender equality through practices stereotypically perceived as forced marriages and the subordination of Muslim women (Behloul 2009;Casanova 2004;Cesari 2010). Unequal gender relations among Muslims are in European countries often identified as the core problem of diversified societies; yet a large number of social scientists responded critically towards such essentializing -reducing people to some imaginary cultural or ethnical "essence" (e. g. Wagner et al 2009) -and stereotyping discourse (Razack 2004;Moira and Phillips 2008;Roggeband and Verloo 2007;Baghdadi 2010;Dahinden et al 2012). As will be shown, essentializing Muslim features and linking them to the idea of a culturally induced gender inequality can be considered as a kind of transnationalization of religion.…”