Islam in France Reconfigured: Republican Islam in the 2010 Gerin Report

Selby, Jennifer A.

doi:10.1080/13602004.2011.599544

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“…The 2010 Gerin Report initiated by André Gerin, a member of the National Assembly, escalated the politicization of full-face veils (voile intégral), such as burqas and niqabs. 19 Influenced by this report, the law prohibiting clothes covering the full face came into force in 2011. 20 In addition, despite the existence of 20 private Islamic schools, 21 no public school provides religious education in France.…”

Section: France: Strict Separation Of Church and Statementioning

confidence: 97%

The Limits of European Islam: Turkish Islamic Umbrella Organizations and their Relations with Host Countries—France and Germany

Arkilic¹

2015

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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Section: France: Strict Separation Of Church and Statementioning

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The Limits of European Islam: Turkish Islamic Umbrella Organizations and their Relations with Host Countries—France and Germany

Arkilic¹

2015

Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs

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“…It has been further documented how Islam operates as a racialised identity inscribed on Muslims' bodies through the hegemonic banning of headscarves (Davidson, 2012;Hancock, 2015;Hancock and Mobillion, 2019;Limage, 2000;Rootham, 2015), an institution which Secor (2002) refers to as 'regimes of veiling'. Furthermore, research demonstrates that the veil plays a symbolic role in individual-state and community-state dynamics over laïcité's role in sociopolitical power distribution, the politics of identification, and the politics of embodiment (Adam-Troian et al, 2019;Adrian, 2009;Easat-Daas, 2017;Jansen, 2006;Selby, 2011;Werbner, 2007).…”

Section: Laïcité Islam and Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Education, secularism, and illiberalism: Marginalisation of Muslims by the French state

Hauser

2021

French Cultural Studies

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Laïcité, France’s idiosyncratic principle of secularism, is a unique term that today engenders state forms of illiberalism, especially against marginalised communities in France. French Muslims experience instances of discrimination and ‘othering’ as the state endorses illiberal policies in the name of laïcité. These state acts of symbolic violence transgress political geographies and affect French Muslims’ perceptions of identification, citizenship, and belonging. Building on nine interviews with French Muslim higher education students, this article demonstrates ways in which illiberalism operates in the lives of French Muslim higher education students. It identifies the role of the French secular school in the making of gendered Islamophobia. This article serves as means for better understanding the lived experiences of French Muslims and recognising the socio-political changes that need to be made in France to protect and empower marginalised groups against state illiberalism.

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“…Chakraborty & Zempi, 2012;Laxer, 2016;Moors, 2009), or narratives of national belonging (Korteweg & Yurdakul, 2014). The proposals and debates leading to France's burka ban are particularly well researched, revealing reformulations in French notions of security and public order (Fredette, 2015), shifting meanings of secularism (Tissot, 2011;Valdéz, 2016), the construction of a "Republican Islam" and a "radical Islamism" (Selby, 2011), and contradictory feminist arguments about the burka in relation to patriarchy and the oppression of women (Spohn, 2013). Research on those directly affected by European burka policies is limited, with Brems (2014) an important exception providing studies of women who wear the burka in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark.…”

Section: Scholarship On Burka Bansmentioning

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Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

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Gillette

2019

NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research

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Between February 2002 and November 2018, Swedish politicians from the Centre, Christian Democrat, Moderate, Liberal and Sweden Democrat parties proposed policies to ban clothing variously referred to as the "burka," "fullcovering veil," "face veil" and "niqab" (Arabic for face veil) at least 38 times, six at the national level and thirty-two at the municipal. Research suggests that circa 100 women in Sweden wear a "burka"; clearly these policy proposals have little to do with the burka's prevalence. What, then, do these policy proposals attempt to govern? In this text we adopt feminist political scientist Carol Bacchi's "what is the problem represented to be?" approach to analyse Swedish bills to regulate the burka. These policy proposals, we contend, have more to do with conceptualizing Swedishness than addressing an existing "problem" of women who wear burka.

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Islam in France Reconfigured: Republican Islam in the 2010 Gerin Report

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The Limits of European Islam: Turkish Islamic Umbrella Organizations and their Relations with Host Countries—France and Germany

The Limits of European Islam: Turkish Islamic Umbrella Organizations and their Relations with Host Countries—France and Germany

Education, secularism, and illiberalism: Marginalisation of Muslims by the French state

Sweden’s Burka Ban: Policy Proposals, Problematisations, and the Production of Swedishness

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