La transversalité du genre : l'islam et les musulmans dans la presse suisse francophone

Parini, Lorena; Gianni, Matteo; Clavien, Gaëtan

doi:10.3917/cdge.052.0197

Cited by 11 publications

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“…At the national level, Helbling (2010) has analysed individual attitudes by showing how ethnic and national self-understandings among Swiss citizens have had a significant impact on the interaction between xenophobia and Islamophobia. Considering gendered Islamophobia, Parini et al (2012) have shown that in the Swiss French-language media, gender issues function as a means to consolidate the alleged incompatibly between Islam and Western culture. Dahinden et al (2014) have studied how young people in the French-speaking canton of Neuchâtel frame the assumption of 'non-egalitarian Muslims' by intertwining gender, ethnicity and religious elements to define the boundaries of citizenship.…”

Section: Literature Review and Methodologymentioning

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Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Direnberger

Banfi

Eskandari

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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Since 2001, the ‘Islamic threat’ has become increasingly prominent in debates on migration policy, religious affairs and security at the federal level in Switzerland. Supported by the far right-wing parties, the paradigm of the Islamic threat reveals how Islamophobia is gendered and affects Muslim women and men differently. By analysing debates between the Federal Council and Swiss Parliament, this article shows how the Islamic threat shaped the border politics of the Swiss Nation between 2001 and 2015. It reveals how the ruling elite justified the socio-spatial exclusion of Muslims living in a Muslim-minority context. As consequence of the success of the far right-wing Swiss People's Party (SVP), legal measures have increased with regard to security, protection of Swiss culture and women's rights, and exclusion of Muslims from the boundaries of the Swiss nation.

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Section: Literature Review and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Direnberger

Banfi

Eskandari

2022

European Journal of Women's Studies

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“…B. Behloul 2007;Behloul 2009;Behloul 2011;Dahinden et al 2011;Parini et al 2012), für den hier untersuchten Zeitraum finden sich jedoch mit Ausnahme von Ettinger (2018) (Ettinger 2018, 13-15). Wie Ettinger (2018, 16) schreibt, findet sich dazu kaum eine «neutrale, auf Bewertungen verzichtende Berichterstattung».…”

Section: Massenmediale Debatten Zu Islam Und Musliminnen -Forschungssunclassified

The Variety of Muslim Interpretations in Mass Media Public Discourses in German-speaking Switzerland

Trucco¹

2021

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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This article examines Muslim interpretations in the mass media public discourses in German-speaking Switzerland. It focuses on the period from the moment of the adoption of the initiative against the construction of minarets untill mid-2017. On the basis of a discourse analysis four fields of positions are presented. It can be shown that there is a considerable variety of inter-Muslim interpretations. Those positions with the highest reception are characterized by an intolerance of ambiguity and an incorporation of hegemonial interpretative patterns.

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“…These debates take varying forms and intensity, depending on the regulation of religion and the extent to which laicity is or is not applied in each canton, Switzerland being a federal State (Ossipow 2003). Scholars have also demonstrated how the "veil" is used in Swiss media as a symbol of radical Islamism, oppression of women (echoing a process of attribution of extraordinary sexism to the Other described by Roux et al 2007), or incompatibility with democratic values (Parini et al 2012).…”

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Discrimination against Veiled Muslim Women in Switzerland: Insights from Field Experts

Lindemann

2021

Religions

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Although the hijab has recently attracted much attention from social scientists, the discrimination experienced by hijabis has been insufficiently investigated. Data are difficult to obtain, partly because surveys usually do not have items on this practice and victims are difficult to reach. However, field experts, namely active agents in governmental racism-prevention institutions and in Muslim associations, can provide rich insights into processes of discrimination. Based on an analysis of semi-structured interviews, I answer the following question: how do governmental and non-governmental experts describe discrimination against hijabis in Switzerland? The results reveal that, according to the experts interviewed, the hijab is the most important marker leading to processes of discrimination; this discrimination takes a variety of forms and affects a wide range of life domains and profiles of hijabis; such discrimination leads to a segregation of the social space of hijabis; many women are unwilling to report discrimination to governmental services for different reasons.

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La transversalité du genre : l'islam et les musulmans dans la presse suisse francophone

Cited by 11 publications

References 18 publications

Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

Locating the threat, rebordering the nation: Gender and Islamophobia in the Swiss Parliament, 2001–2015

The Variety of Muslim Interpretations in Mass Media Public Discourses in German-speaking Switzerland

Discrimination against Veiled Muslim Women in Switzerland: Insights from Field Experts

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