Gender equality and immigrant integration: Honor killing and forced marriage debates in the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain

Yurdakul, Gökçe; Korteweg, Anna C.

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.07.011

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“…For instance, we know that anti-Muslim discourse in Europe shapes not only everyday interactions but also policies (Yurdakul and Korteweg, 2013;Cowden and Singh, 2017) and norms of belonging (Moffitt et al, 2018). We also know it is deeply intertwined with anti-immigrant sentiment (Reijerse et al, 2013) and that both of these dominant discourses include different norms and expectations based on gender, heritage, and numerous other social categories.…”

Section: Discrimination and Identitymentioning

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Intersectionality and Youth Identity Development Research in Europe

2020

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The increasing application of intersectionality to the psychological study of identity development raises questions regarding how we as researchers construct and operationalize social identity categories, as well as how we best capture and address systems of oppression and privilege within our work. In the continental European context, the use of the intersectionality paradigm raises additional issues, since "race" was officially removed from the vernacular following the atrocities of WWII, yet racialized oppression continues to occur at every level of society. Within psychological research, participants are often divided into those with and without "migration background," which can reiterate inequitable norms of national belonging while washing over salient lived experiences in relation to generation status, citizenship, religion, gender, and the intersection between these and other social locations. Although discrimination is increasingly examined in identity development research, rarely are the history and impact of colonialism and related socio-historical elements acknowledged. In the current paper, we aim to address these issues by reviewing previous research and discussing theoretical and practical possibilities for the future. In doing so, we delve into the problems of trading in one static social identity category (e.g., "race") for another (e.g., "migration background/migrant") without examining the power structures inherent in the creation of these top-down categories, or the lived experiences of those navigating what it means to be marked as a racialized Other. Focusing primarily on contextualized ethno-cultural identity development, we discuss relevant examples from the continental European context, highlighting research gaps, points for improvement, and best practices.

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Section: Discrimination and Identitymentioning

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2020

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“…The instructive cases in public education material often warn about young people who are taken to another country on the pretext of a vacation or a visit to relatives, only to find they are to be married while away, or about vulnerable young people who are forced into a marriage to facilitate an immigration sponsorship. The statistics portray a story of forced marriage linkages to communities with various markers of minority status in Western states (Yurdakul and Korteweg 2013).…”

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Gendering Islamophobia to better understand immigration laws

Dauvergne

2019

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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This paper examines two recent developments in immigration law in Western liberal democracies: security exclusions and forced marriage provisions. It aims to consider how both of these settings are influenced by a pernicious Islamophobia and by gender. And, of course, by the intersection that creates a gendered version of Islamophobia. The overarching aim of the work is to consider whether and how human rights arguments are likely to be effective in immigration law. The work proceeds by developing the ideas of 'unknowability' and 'unintelligibility' as two ways to describe how Western law responds to Islam, and in so doing, contributes to Islamophobia.

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“…On the other hand, the guest workers are "not welcome" in a way that alien labour represents an undesirable "otherness". The debates on otherness are, for example, constructed around the concerns of the incompatibility of Islam with democracy and are particularly focused on the subjects of gender equality, forced marriages, honour killings as well as the wearing of the hijab, niqab and burqa (Yurdakul & Korteweg, 2013). These immigrants are then seen as a threat to the national community and are culturally devalued (Faist, 2014).…”

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From culture to class - legitimate boundary making in German immigration debates on Southern and Eastern Europeans

Ulbricht

2019

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The article depicts symbolic boundary making in the German discourse on immigration. The analysis addresses the question of how wanted and unwanted immigrants are socially constructed and thereby differentiated in this discourse. The media analysis from 2008 to 2014 of so-called poverty migration from Rumania and Bulgaria and so-called new guest workers from Greece, Italy and Spain suggest that boundary making against these immigrants shifts from ethnicity and religion to an individual class-based approach. In this respect, the article discusses how a strong human rights discourse makes a dominant individualistic class-based definition of (un-) wanted immigration more likely. However, the analysis also shows that this construction of desirability refers to the ethnicity of the immigrants. In this sense, ethnic boundary making is stable in a liberal-universalistic context.

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Gender equality and immigrant integration: Honor killing and forced marriage debates in the Netherlands, Germany, and Britain

Cited by 54 publications

References 19 publications

Intersectionality and Youth Identity Development Research in Europe

Intersectionality and Youth Identity Development Research in Europe

Gendering Islamophobia to better understand immigration laws

From culture to class - legitimate boundary making in German immigration debates on Southern and Eastern Europeans

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