Unveiling Distribution: Muslim Women with Headscarves in France and Germany

Fournier, Pascale; Yurdakul, Gökçe

doi:10.1057/9781403984678_9

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“…Collins acerbically points out (Collins 1995, p. 493), “recasting racism, patriarchy and class exploitation solely in social constructionist terms reduces class, race and gender to performances, interactions between people embedded in a never ending stream of equivalent relations, all containing race, class and gender in some form, but a chain of equivalences, devoid of power relations.” The issue of power and the political economy within which it is exercised is central to the controversy surrounding Muslim women and veiling in the Western world (Bloul 1998; Fournier and Yurdakul 2006) where veiling is constructed as both a marker and a stake for collective identities.…”

Section: Gender Performancementioning

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Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Desai

Temsah

2014

Demography

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Prior research on fundamentalist religious movements has focused attention on the complicated relationship between gender, family and religion. Using data from a nationally representative survey of 30,000 Hindu and Muslim women, this study compares the daily public and private behaviors of women in India to examine how gender and family norms are shaped in the context of communalized identity politics. Building on the theoretical framework of “doing gender”, it argues that because communal identities are expressed through externally visible behaviors, greater religious differences are expected in external markers of gendered behaviors and family norms. Results indicate that Muslim women are more likely to engage in veiling and less likely to venture outside the home for recreation and employment. However, religious differences are absent when attention is directed at private behaviors such as household decision making power, gender segregation within households, and discrimination against daughters. Results underscore the multidimensionality of gender.

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Section: Gender Performancementioning

confidence: 99%

Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Desai

Temsah

2014

Demography

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“…European research, by contrast, sees a variety of state-based policies, some assimilationist, others more multiculturalist, as affecting integration (Entzinger 2003(Entzinger , 2006Fournier & Yurdakul 2006;Joppke 2004;Korteweg 2006b). European policies increasingly focus on culture and have the integration of Muslim immigrants as their central problematic.…”

Section: Participation and Assimilationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…European policies increasingly focus on culture and have the integration of Muslim immigrants as their central problematic. Cultural concerns often focus on gender relations in ongoing debates about how to regulate or sanction forced marriage and honor killings, as well as the wearing of hijab, niqab, and burqa (Fournier & Yurdakul 2006, Korteweg 2006b, Razack 2004. These practices are often seen as antithetical to European values of gender equality and emblematic of the perceived antiliberal, antidemocratic influence of Islam (Okin 1999).…”

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Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

2008

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Citizenship encompasses legal status, rights, participation, and belonging. Traditionally anchored in a particular geographic and political community, citizenship evokes notions of national identity, sovereignty, and state control, but these relationships are challenged by the scope and diversity of international migration. This review considers normative and empirical debates over citizenship and bridges an informal divide between European and North American literatures. We focus on citizenship within nation-states by discussing ethnic versus civic citizenship, multiculturalism, and assimilation. Going beyond nation-state boundaries, we also look at transnational, postnational, and dual citizenships. Throughout, we identify methodological and theoretical challenges in this field, noting the need for a more dynamic and comprehensive understanding of the interrelationships between the dimensions of citizenship and immigration.

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“…Since 1989, however, and arguably earlier, the normative sway of socialism in Europe has dissipated considerably. 124 Today, most social democrats who advocate policies designed to improve, in particular, the socioeconomic status of immigrants do so from a moral standpoint of providing equal opportunity to all whether native or alien. This stance falls within the normative orbit of liberal universalism because socioeconomic equal opportunity is seen to be a necessary condition for genuine personal autonomy.…”

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Making (Normative) Sense of the Headscarf Debate in Europe

O'Brien¹

2009

German Politics and Society

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This article analyzes the most influential weltanschauungen at play in the politics of immigration in Europe. I categorize relevant value judgments into what I, following Theodore Lowi, call "public philosophies." I highlight three competing public philosophies in the politics of immigration in Europe: 1) liberalism; 2) nationalism; and 3) postmodernism. Liberalism prescribes universal rights protecting the autonomy of the individual, as well as rational and democratic procedures (rules of the game) to govern the pluralism that inevitably results in free societies. Against liberalism, nationalism stresses community and cultural homogeneity in addition to a political structure designed to protect both. Rejecting both liberalism and nationalism, postmodernism posits insurmountable relativism and irreducible cultural heterogeneity accompanied by ultimately irrepressible political antagonism. I examine the three outlooks through a case study of the headscarf debate. The article concludes with consideration of how normative ideas combine with other factors to influence policymaking.

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Unveiling Distribution: Muslim Women with Headscarves in France and Germany

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Muslim and Hindu Women’s Public and Private Behaviors: Gender, Family, and Communalized Politics in India

Citizenship and Immigration: Multiculturalism, Assimilation, and Challenges to the Nation-State

Making (Normative) Sense of the Headscarf Debate in Europe

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