Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press

Jiwani, Yasmin; Al-Rawi, Ahmed

doi:10.1177/1464884919825503

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“…These limitations may include racialised poverty (Batelaan, 2021), youth criminalisation (Jiwani and Al-Rawi, 2019), the inferiorisation of African Canadian parental styles (Adjei and Minka, 2018) and systemic anti-black racism/Afrophobia and the history of colonisation and slavery. These systemic limitations make African Canadian students alienated and disenchanted with the school, leading to a microculture of disinterest in school, culminating in further stigmatisation, dropouts and criminalisation.…”

Section: The Cycle Of Misrepresentationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Back to ‘things themselves’: breaking the cycle of misrepresentation when serving African Canadian youth

Garang

2022

Critical and Radical Social Work

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Bureaucratic discourses informed by legacies of slavery and colonisation create traumatising experiences among African Canadian youth in social, educational and law-enforcement institutions in Canada. These discourses create the already-known-people paradigm and are then exacerbated by the effects of neoliberal policies and managerialist administrations to produce an unfortunate social condition in which system professionals discount what these youth say about experiential marginality and social injustice. This means that African Canadian youth end up being understood by system professionals from administrative discourses or from historical assumptions. Using phenomenology, I argue in this article that focusing on the experiences of these youth in time when assessing or making decisions about them may help to reduce stereotyping and stigmatisation, and to highlight normalised social injustices. Consequently, focusing on behaviour-in-time as opposed to behaviour-in-discourse may allow system professionals to operationalise administrative discourses without downplaying behaviour-in-time, which is important in service provision.

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Section: The Cycle Of Misrepresentationmentioning

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Back to ‘things themselves’: breaking the cycle of misrepresentation when serving African Canadian youth

Garang

2022

Critical and Radical Social Work

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“…Rather than framing them simply as women wanting to return to Canada, their designation as Canadian wives is privileged here. The first woman to be interviewed is described as a Somali from Toronto's Dixon Road area, a neighbourhood that is economically depressed with a concentration of Somali Canadians and a high crime rate (Jiwani and Al-Rawi 2019). The woman appears dressed in a green, dotted hijab and niqab.…”

Section: Returning Jihadi Brides/"wives Of Isis Fighters"mentioning

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Gendered Islamophobia in the Case of the Returning ISIS Women: A Canadian Narrative

Jiwani¹

2021

Islamophobia Studies Journal

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In February 2019, the case of Shamima Begum, hit the headlines. Begum, one of the three East London girls who had left the UK for Syria in 2015, was located in a refugee camp in Syria. Tagged as an “ISIS bride,” Begum's case raised the profile of Muslim women who had voluntarily left their home countries to join the Islamic State and were now seeking to return. In this paper, I focus on the Canadian women returnees who were and, in some cases, remain wives of ISIS soldiers. I pay particular attention to how they are framed in the Canadian media and the audience response to their portrayals. Against a backdrop of the media's representation of these women, I examine the comments that audience members posted after a three-part series on the returning ISIS members was broadcast on the Global Television Network during the month of October 2018. Global TV is a 24/7 news channel that can be streamed online on various platforms. I contend that the construction of the returning wives and the responses the series elicited are reflective of the larger currents of racism and Islamophobia that circulate within Canadian society and that have become amplified since the inception of the War on Terror. However, they take on a distinct hue with respect to the framing of gendered agency and critically heighten the affective charge around the issue of returning ISIS fighters and the women who joined the movement. In this sense, the technology making online commenting possible has escalated the extent and intensity of Islamophobia. This article also seeks to demonstrate how Islamophobia is yoked to and animates an anti-government discourse. Thus, in contrast to Canada's projected national image as a benign, multicultural nation, the user-generated comments paint a picture of a white nation that is overrun with and taken advantage of by racialized minorities.

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“…Studies show that these communities are subject to high levels of social scrutiny, securitization, and surveillance (e.g., Berns-McGown 2013;Giwa et al 2014;Razack 2007;Sirin and Fine 2007). Academic, government, and media characterizations have stereotyped Somali-Canadians as violent outsiders who needed additional control (Dossa 2008;Jiwani and Al-Rawi 2020;Razack 2004;Selby 2018). Somali-Canadian youth are thus more likely to come to the attention of police and immigration authorities; the Faster Removal of Foreign Criminals Act seals their fates with the "inadmissible" label (Benslimane and Moffette 2019; Silverman and Kaytaz 2020); and the conditions in Somalia make it unlikely that Amir or fellow detainees will be deported in a timely manner, if at all.…”

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Springing Amir

Silverman

2021

Migration and Society

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For a 2016 article on immigration detention in Canada, I co-created a composite case study named Amir. At the end of writing, I left him indefinitely incarcerated. This article provides an opportunity both to suggest more ethical ways to research detention, and to query White scholarly acquiescence to anti-Black racism and the build-up of detention systems. To spring Amir, I slide a series of four, interrelated doors: (1) discretionary release; (2) a writ of habeas corpus; (3) the end of anti-Black, anti-Muslim, and anti-refugee discrimination in Canada; and (4) the abolition of detention. I conclude with a reflection on promising methodological directions leading toward a new horizon of immigrant and racial justice.

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Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press

Cited by 8 publications

References 49 publications

Back to ‘things themselves’: breaking the cycle of misrepresentation when serving African Canadian youth

Back to ‘things themselves’: breaking the cycle of misrepresentation when serving African Canadian youth

Gendered Islamophobia in the Case of the Returning ISIS Women: A Canadian Narrative

Springing Amir

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