In Defence of Gender Equality? Comparing the Political Debates about Headscarves and Honor-Related Crimes in France and the Netherlands

Roggeband, Conny; Lettinga, Doutje

doi:10.1093/sp/jxu024

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“…In the Netherlands, the field of formal regulation has been very dispersed. Rather than a focus on efforts to create new laws (though those did exist), the headscarf was largely regulated through bottom-up conflict in multiple domains of school, university, leisure, sport, and government (Roggeband and Lettinga, 2016). Advisory rulings of the precursor to the Dutch Commission for Human Rights often protected the right of women to cover themselves but pressures to limit that right continue to be exerted throughout all domains of social life.…”

Section: Regulating the Headscarf: Postcolonial Difference And Decolonizing Possibilities In The Early 2000smentioning

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Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

Korteweg

Yurdakul

2020

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In this article, we analyze headscarf debates that unfolded in the first decade of the twenty-first century in France, the Netherlands, and Germany. Through a socio-historical overview looking at newspaper articles and policy and legal documents, we show how the headscarf has become a site for negotiating immigrant-related, postcolonial difference. We argue that certain feminist understanding of gender liberation and postcolonial difference in the headscarf debates reveal the continuity of control mechanisms from the colonial to the postcolonial era. We highlight the possibilities for decolonial thought and practice by centering the situatedness of headscarf. This allows us to show how Muslim citizens are active participants in producing contemporary Western European histories even as some of their practices face overt rejection.

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Section: Regulating the Headscarf: Postcolonial Difference And Decolonizing Possibilities In The Early 2000smentioning

confidence: 99%

Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

Korteweg

Yurdakul

2020

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“…Conversely, the emerging cultural bias implies a qualitative change of the differences established between ‘us’ and ‘them’. As a marker of cultural difference gender contributes to a hierarchical and moral juxtaposition of qualities and characteristics perceived as genuinely Swiss with features considered as culturally different and inferior (see also Dietze, 2009; Roggeband and Lettinga, 2014).…”

Section: Exploring Turning Points In Swiss Immigration Politics From mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Current research remains unclear about how gender has shaped migration policies before becoming a signpost of cultural difference and before normative framings of gender equality became widespread during the past decade. Most contributions are based on the analysis of distinct incidents and historical moments, often focusing on the culturalisation of Muslim women and men (Korteweg and Yurdakul, 2009; Roggeband and Lettinga, 2014). Little effort has been made to trace historical trajectories that have led to shifting boundaries, and to illuminate changing roles of gender as a boundary marker (exceptions are Schrover and Moloney, 2013; Roggeband and Verloo, 2007).…”

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Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today

Fischer

Dahinden

2016

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The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of 'the other'. Drawing on theories of boundary work, we show that gendered representations of migrants are mobilised by different actors to advance their claims and calls for certain forms of immigration control and migrant integration. Since the late 19th century, gendered representations of Swiss nationals and migrant others shift from classical gender ideas to culturalised post-colonial interpretations of gender roles and, most recently, to normative ideas of gender equality. As part of these changes, migrant women moved from the periphery to the core of public and political attention. Concomitantly, categories of difference shift from the intersection of gender and social class to an intersection of gender, culture and ethnicity. Local particularities of Switzerland -the idea of 'overforeignisation' and the system of direct democracy -play a significant role in shaping categories. But Switzerland's embeddedness in transnational fields emerges as equally important. The article expands on recent research and illuminates how changing dynamics of categorisation and othering facilitate the construction of nations and national identities in a transnationalised world.

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“…Throughout Europe, refugees' gender-role values have become the subject of heated public debates over the last years, especially after reported sexual assaults at the 2015/16 New Year's Eve festivities in Cologne (Triandafyllidou 2018). In this debate, the argument that refugees' more traditional gender-role values are a barrier to their social integration, a view traditionally held by the populist right (Korteweg and Yurdakul 2014), is increasingly found in mainstream public debates in Europe as well (Roggeband and Lettinga 2016;Lenneis and Agergaard 2018;Bonjour and Duyvendak 2018). We consider refugee women to be a particularly interesting case because many come from countries with traditional gender-role values where men are household heads (Kelly and Breslin 2010).…”

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Do Gender-role Values Matter? Explaining New Refugee Women’s Social Contact in Germany

Hartmann¹,

Steinmann

2020

International Migration Review

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This article investigates whether gender-role values are linked to refugee women’s social contact in Germany. By building on the “preferences–third parties–opportunities” framework, we explicate a direct and an indirect path through which gender-role values may be related to refugee women’s minority-majority, intra-minority, and inter-minority contact. By applying median regressions, marginal structural models, and inverse probability of treatment weighting to data from the 2016 IAB-BAMF-SOEP refugee survey, we show that refugee women’s own gender-traditional values and those of their partners are associated both directly and indirectly with less social contact for these women. Effects of gender-role values on refugee women’s social contact are more pronounced for minority-majority contact than for the other two types of social contact assessed. With the effects of refugee women’s and their partners’ gender-role values being rather small against alternative explanatory factors, we conclude that in contrast to the view traditionally held by the populist right, traditional gender-role values hold refugee women back from establishing social contact in the host society only to a very limited extent.

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In Defence of Gender Equality? Comparing the Political Debates about Headscarves and Honor-Related Crimes in France and the Netherlands

Cited by 10 publications

References 30 publications

Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

Liberal feminism and postcolonial difference: Debating headscarves in France, the Netherlands, and Germany

Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today

Do Gender-role Values Matter? Explaining New Refugee Women’s Social Contact in Germany

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