Public Policy and Identity

Almalki, Amal

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-46639-6_9

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“…Expatriates can reside in the Gulf all their life, live within their own ethnic communities, and have little knowledge of or interaction with citizens and their culture. British nationals may be ethnically Arab and those holding a Yemeni passport may have a local mother and a Yemeni father (Al-Malki, 2016). Respondents are aware that nationality categories are fluid, thus do not rely on this information to determine with whom to share citizenship.…”

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Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Shockley

Gengler

2023

PSRM

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This paper proposes a framework of immigrant acceptance that accounts for both group-level and individual-level characteristics and conducts a novel test of the cultural threat hypothesis. Immigrants’ individual traits are conceptualized as secondary to their identity-based claims. The empirical strategy leverages a set of survey experiments conducted in the extreme rentier state of Qatar, where naturalization poses tangible negative financial consequences for citizens by expanding the pool of government welfare beneficiaries. Findings demonstrate that citizens are willing to share citizenship with a narrow ethnic in-group while individual cultural and economic attributes are lower-order determinants influencing economically vulnerable citizens. Importantly, answers to direct survey measures are at odds with these findings, demonstrating their susceptibility to social desirability bias.

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Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Shockley

Gengler

2023

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“…83 The concerns of several of our interviewees about exclusion from the national narrative reflects Al-Malki's work on public policy and identity in Qatar, in which she states, "All citizens should have a claim over their country, regardless of ethnicity, gender, or sectarian background". 84 This investigation into the unity narrative of the National Museum of Qatar, and the reaction of a segment of Qatari citizens to this narrative, brings up larger questions about the direction of nationalism in Qatar as a result of the crisis. Al-Malki argues that the aim of "a unified national identity" should be "to promote inclusiveness and pluralism, to eradicate discrimination within the existing citizenship model, and to embrace previously marginalized identities".…”

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Nationalism and Identity in Qatar after 2017: The Narrative of the New National Museum

Mitchell¹,

Al-Hammadi

2020

Journal of Arabian Studies

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How are nationalism and national identity shifting in Qatar as a result of the regional crisis? This study explores whether this moment of geopolitical fluidity allows for changes in sociocultural behavior and norms among Qatari citizens. Specifically, this research uses the case study of the newly opened National Museum of Qatar to examine a state-crafted narrative of national identity and society's response to this narrative. Our original fieldwork highlights the museum's combination of desert and sea lifestyles to create a "unity" narrative of Qatari national identity, and explores the mixed reactions of citizens who feel varying levels of representation and inclusion in this narrative. This study concludes with a critical analysis of the malleability of national identity during times of political upheaval.

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“…The study allows a rethinking of the roles of men and women in the domestic space, while contextualizing the overarching societal limits and cultural imperatives. This approach is highly applicable in the conservative and gender-segregated societies of the Arabian Gulf region, including that of Qatar (Al-Malki, 2016; Alshawi and Gardner, 2013).…”

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Women's spaces in the vernacular Qatari courtyard house: how privacy and gendered spatial segregation shape architectural identity

Al-Mohannadi

Furlan²,

Grosvald³

2022

OHI

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PurposeThis research study aims to explore sociocultural factors such as privacy and gender segregation as they relate to the spatial perception of women's spaces within the vernacular Qatari household, and the activities, habits and practiced culture of its inhabitants.Design/methodology/approachThis analysis utilizes the Space Syntax methodology to examine a sample of vernacular courtyard houses with respect to space connectivity, conducting an analytical exploration of the role of women based on the system of activities.FindingsThe findings shed light on the spatial complexity and sensitivity of the Qatari household as it reflects the prevailing sociocultural imperatives in Qatari urbanities, including the country's capital, Doha.Research limitations/implicationsThis research study thus reinforces the importance of traditional residential architecture in conserving Qatar's distinctive architectural identity, rooted in its sociocultural attributes.Social implicationsSociocultural features such as privacy and gender segregation are among the most prominent factors influencing the spatial form of vernacular courtyard houses in the Arabian Gulf country of Qatar.Originality/valueIt is argued that within a typical vernacular Qatari household, women's spaces are the least connected (most segregated) areas, due mainly to the influence of privacy norms and gender segregation on the spatial configuration of the house.

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Public Policy and Identity

Cited by 8 publications

References 7 publications

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Sharing citizenship: economic competition, cultural threat, and immigration preferences in the rentier state

Nationalism and Identity in Qatar after 2017: The Narrative of the New National Museum

Women's spaces in the vernacular Qatari courtyard house: how privacy and gendered spatial segregation shape architectural identity

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