Three Questions for the Multiculturalism Debate

Yarbrough, Larry

doi:10.1080/00091383.1992.9937706

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“…1 The core inquiry occupying multicultural theorists thus grapples with an agonizing problem: accommodating group-differentiated rights habitually means compromising the wellbeing of individual group members and rendering women-the minority within the minority-the victims of liberal tolerance. Indeed, this well-known dilemma, and the politico-legal arrangements envisioned in order to solve it, has dominated "the multiculturalism debate" in recent decades (Yarbrough 1992;Triandafyllidou, Modood, and Zapata-Barrero 2006;Levrau and Loobuyck 2018).…”

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Transforming “Transformative Accommodation”: Palestinian-Muslim Women’s Maintenance Suits as a Case Study

Hleihel,

Shahar,

Yefet

2024

Law Soc. Inq.

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“Transformative accommodation,” one of the most influential models proposed and debated in multiculturalist literature, is designed to strike a fine-tuned balance between minority community culture and the rights of its most vulnerable constituents. This article seeks to challenge the model’s theoretical premises and predictive normative outputs. Drawing on a novel empirical case study—the adjudication of Palestinian-Muslim wife maintenance suits in both Israel’s sharia courts as well as its civil family courts—we contend that multicultural transformation is a bidirectional process. That is, the complex encounter between liberal normativity and indigenous-religious normativity may bring about transformation not only in the minority community’s nomos, as the model envisions, but also in both normative legal systems. The article concludes with an analytical discussion aiming to transform transformative accommodation such that the model may indeed live up to its ambitious multiculturalist goals.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%