Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims’ encounters with Islamophobia

Onay, Özge; Millington, Gareth

doi:10.1080/01419870.2024.2317955

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“…This tendency to think of Brexit seems to have resulted in a complete denial and disguise that helped the Turkish context to be masqueraded as irrelevant by British Turks. It ought to be noted that this understanding is the product of a historical process negotiated by British Turks in a double context: from within their country of family origin (Turkey) and from within their current country of residence (Britain) (Onay and Millington 2024). We should not forget that all my respondents were either born in or immigrated to Britain at an early age and raised by parents who emigrated from Turkey in the early 1970s and 1980s.…”

Section: Analysis Synthesis Of Turkism Islamism and Modernismmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…The search for continual definition, redefinition, and authenticity is not peculiar to Britain, and Islamophobia is not only externally directed at Turkish people but equally characterised by Orientalist bifurcations between modernity and Islam in their parental home (Onay and Millington 2024). Therefore, the broader argument of this paper is that although the far-right UKIP went so far as to associate the prospect of Turkey's membership to the EU with a surge of (potentially Muslim) immigrants into Europe, it may be seen that some British Turks denied the existing correlations between the Brexit campaign and Turkey's quest for EU membership (Ker-Lindsay 2018).…”

Section: Turkey's Near Battle For Westernisationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…166-169). By way of the main argument of this paper, the perspectives of British Turks were not only shaped in the context and scope of British politics, where they live, but also by Turkey-from history and familial experiences and opinions passed through generations (Onay and Millington 2024). So the main objective of this article draws from two distinct perspectives: one from the likelihood of a sense of exclusion and unbelonging, stemming from anti-Muslim sentiments foregrounded by the Brexit campaign's use of Turkey, and the other from the longstanding, entrenched collective memories on Ottoman/Turkish Orientalism defining Turkish identity as different from a racialised and stigmatised 'Muslim' Other and as a product of the hegemonic westernisation project of the late Ottoman-early Kemalist 3 era.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The warnings about Turkey’s not-so-near accession to the EU are explored as a strategic tool in the Brexit campaign, linking concerns about sovereignty and immigration compounded with the anxieties surrounding Islam and the threat of terrorism. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Edward Said’s Orientalism and the unique perspectives gathered from British Turks, this paper sheds light on their nuanced responses. It uncovers strategies of disbelief and denial in the face of the constructed narrative that portrayed Turkey as an undesirable ‘Other’ with its predominantly Muslim population. A closer analysis of some British Turks’ narratives is premised not only on the sacralised defence of the principles of Turkish westernisation but also on the socio-political reputation of the Islamic Ottoman past as almighty. The article equally contributes to a deeper understanding of the complex interplay between British national identity and discourses surrounding immigration, sovereignty, and Islamophobia within the context of Brexit, as well as the principles by which the privileges of modern, secular Turkey, as well as the demise of the mighty Ottoman image, are maintained. In a paradoxical manner, the act of denial only serves to affirm the Brexit campaign’s narrative depicting Turkey as an undesirable ‘Other’ with a predominantly Muslim demographic.

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A Global Phenomenology of Whiteness: Turkey, Europe and Institutional Global Racism

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Contemporary international institutions are often discussed as part of a new liberal international order and a departure from colonial logics of the nineteenth century. While some have discussed the ongoing dynamics of race within international institutions, few have explored whiteness as the positionality embedded in such institutions. This article argues that the racial logics embedded in most international institutions, throughout the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty‐first centuries, are developed in relation to the structures of experience and consciousness of whiteness that circumscribe notions of 'universality' and 'normalcy'. This renders whiteness as an invisible characteristic, or background knowledge and practice, to which racialisation occurs. Using the case of the Ottoman Empire's attempt to accede to the European group of 'civilised nations' and subsequent Turkish attempts to gain membership to the European Union, this article explores how a phenomenology of whiteness is historically produced and embedded as an orientating mechanism in international institutions.

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Navigating Racialisation and Whiteness: British Turks’ Struggles for Belonging in Multiscale Public Spaces within the UK

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This paper explores the complex dynamics of racialization and whiteness within the context of British Turks’ pursuit of belonging in multiscale public spaces in the UK. It examines how these dynamics ultimately lead them to perceive themselves as “non-British” and affirm their place as “Other” within mainstream British society. Based on their experiences in multiscale spatialities, ranging from urban and provincial cities to university campuses and pubs, this study delves into subtle forms of exclusions and stigmatizations tied to differentiated ways British Turks are racialized, revealing how racial identities are constantly reconstructed and contested in these spaces. Based on the discourses of racialization and whiteness emanating from the social and political context in which xenophobia and Islamophobia emerge, the findings highlight the need to consider the intersections of race, ethnicity, culture, and religion in understanding how British Turks constantly question their place and belonging in the UK and confront racial boundaries and different forms of racisms including Islamophobia within various settings in Britain.

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Negotiations with whiteness in British Turkish Muslims’ encounters with Islamophobia

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Brexit’s Illusion: Decoding Islamophobia and Othering in Turkey’s EU Accession Discourse among British Turks

Brexit’s Illusion: Decoding Islamophobia and Othering in Turkey’s EU Accession Discourse among British Turks

A Global Phenomenology of Whiteness: Turkey, Europe and Institutional Global Racism

Navigating Racialisation and Whiteness: British Turks’ Struggles for Belonging in Multiscale Public Spaces within the UK

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