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Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
Contributors: Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada (Laval University), Alexander Van Leuven (KU Leuven), Alfonso Corral (San Jorge University), Alfredo Brant (Catholic University of Portugal), Anna Flora Machado (Catholic University of Portugal), Anabelle Vanier-Clément (SHERPA University Institute), Ann Trappers (Foyer VZW), Ans De Nolf (KU Leuven), Antonio Prieto-Andrés (San Jorge University), Ashley S. Montgomery (Concordia University), Camila Arêas (University of Reunion), Cayetano Fernández (San Jorge University), Cécile Rousseau (McGill University), Colin Robineau (University of Reunion), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Erkan Toguslu (KU Leuven), Helena Cruz Ventura (University Institute of Lisbon), Jennifer A. Selby (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Jihène Hichri (Université du Québec à Montreal), Joanna Sozańska (Warsaw School of Economics), Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (Warsaw School of Economics), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar (European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Rawda Harb (Concordia University), Salam El-Majzoub (McGill University), Sobia Shaheen Shaikh (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Stefan Mertens (KU Leuven), Vivek Venkatesh (Concordia University) Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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Beyond Accommodation : Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians
\"Problems--of integration, failed political participation, headscarves, and requests for various kinds of accommodation--seem to dominate the social scientific research on Muslims in Canada, the United States, and Western Europe. Beyond Accommodation: Everyday Narratives of Muslim Canadians offers a different perspective, showing how Muslim Canadians successfully navigate and negotiate their religiosity in the more mundane moments of their everyday lives. Drawing on interviews with Muslims in Montreal and St. John's, Selby, Barras, and Beaman examine moments in which religiosity is worked out. They argue that the ways in which people effectively navigate and negotiate a place for religion in their daily lives have remained largely invisible. From this vantage point, the authors critique the model of reasonable accommodation, which has been lauded internationally for acknowledging and accommodating religious and cultural differences. They suggest that the model disempowers religious minorities by implicitly privileging Christianity and by placing the onus on minorities to make requests for accommodation. The interviewees show that informal negotiation occurs most of the time; scholars, however, have not been paying attention. This book advances a new model for studying the navigation and negotiation of religion in the public sphere and presents an alternative picture of how religious difference is woven into the fabric of Canadian society.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation
Foundations and mechanisms of Islamophobia in the West. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation discusses the scope and fragmented boundaries of Islamophobia as a concept and a sociopolitical reality. The fifteen chapters of this collection cover and connect interdisciplinary research, media content analysis, media discourse analysis, ethnographic research, intersectoral advocacy work, and action research conducted in Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, and Spain. Confronted with an Islamophobia that is growing as a symptom of broader societal malaise in the West, a resistance against it is also arising. It is now a question of better understanding the foundations and mechanisms of this metasolidarity and resistance. Islamophobia as a Form of Radicalisation offers recommendations for urgent consideration by Muslim citizens of Canada and Europe, media professionals, civil society and academic stakeholders, policymakers at the municipal, provincial and federal levels.
Contributors: Abdelwahed Mekki-Berrada (Laval University), Alexander Van Leuven (KU Leuven), Alfonso Corral (San Jorge University), Alfredo Brant (Catholic University of Portugal), Anna Flora Machado (Catholic University of Portugal), Anabelle Vanier-Clément (SHERPA University Institute), Ann Trappers (Foyer VZW), Ans De Nolf (KU Leuven), Antonio Prieto-Andrés (San Jorge University), Ashley S. Montgomery (Concordia University), Camila Arêas (University of Reunion), Cayetano Fernández (San Jorge University), Cécile Rousseau (McGill University), Colin Robineau (University of Reunion), David De Coninck (KU Leuven), Erkan Toguslu (KU Leuven), Helena Cruz Ventura (University Institute of Lisbon), Jennifer A. Selby (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Jihène Hichri (Université du Québec à Montreal), Joanna Sozańska (Warsaw School of Economics), Katarzyna Górak-Sosnowska (Warsaw School of Economics), Leen d’Haenens (KU Leuven), Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar (European University Viadrina Frankfurt Oder), Rawda Harb (Concordia University), Salam El-Majzoub (McGill University), Sobia Shaheen Shaikh (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador), Stefan Mertens (KU Leuven), Vivek Venkatesh (Concordia University) Ebook available in Open Access. This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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Perceptions of Discrimination as a Marker of Integration Among Muslim-Canadians: The Role of Religiosity, Ethnic Identity, and Gender
Although Muslim-Canadians report general satisfaction with their lives (Adams,
2009
), there is evidence that their circumstances within Canada are less than ideal (Beyer,
2005
; Helly,
2004
). This study was designed to investigate perceptions of discrimination among Muslim-Canadians and to determine whether these perceptions were related to levels of religiosity, ethnic identity, and gender. The role of generational status was also explored. Seventy-seven students (ages 18 to 29) who self-identified as Muslim were recruited in Southern Ontario, Canada. Overall, participants reported moderate levels of perceived discrimination. A positive relationship between religiosity and perceptions of discrimination was found, but not between ethnic identity and perceptions of discrimination. Additionally, Muslim women perceived greater discrimination than Muslim men. Few differences between first- and second-generation Muslim-Canadians were found. The results are discussed within the literature on Muslims and minorities in North America and signify the importance of understanding Muslim experiences in Canadian society.
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Memoirs of a Muhindi : Fleeing East Africa for the West
\"In Memoirs of a Muhindi, Mansoor Ladha bears witness to what happens when nations turn against entire religious and ethnic groups. When Ugandan president Idi Amin expelled Africans of Indian descent from the country in 1972, he unleashed an intolerance that set off an exodus from the entire region. In Tanzania and Kenya, businesses were nationalized, properties taken, people harassed, and livelihoods upended. Mansoor Ladha, who was living in Nairobi at the time, had to decide whether to stay or go. Canada became his new home--where he found considerable success, as did the rest of the Ismaili community--while East Africa never recovered from its fit of bigotry. A newspaper columnist and award-winning journalist, Mansoor Ladha is the author of A Portrait in Pluralism: Aga Khan's Shia Ismaili Muslims. He lives in Calgary, Alberta.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Muslims in the West : from sojourners to citizens
Today, Muslims are the second-largest religious group in much of Europe and Northern America. The chapters in this collection look both at the impact of the growing Muslim population on Western societies, and how Muslims are adapting to life in the West. Part 1 looks at the Muslim diaspora in Europe, comprising chapters on Britain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, and the Netherlands. Part 2 turns to the Western Hemisphere and Muslims in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Throughout, the chapters contend with such questions as: Can Muslims retain their faith and identity and at the same time accept and function within the secular and pluralistic traditions of Europe and America? What are the limits of Western pluralism? Will Muslims come to be fully accepted as fellow citizens with equal rights? A guide to the changing landscape of Islam, this volume is an introduction to the experiences of Muslims in the west, and the diverse responses of their adopted countries.
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Refugee Women
Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called 'sharia-tribunals', Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question - does accommodating Islam violate women's rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It contrasts debates in France over the headscarf and in Canada over religious arbitration with the lived experience of a specific group of Muslim women: Somali refugee women. The challenges these women eloquently describe first-hand demonstrate that the fray over accommodating culture and religion neglects other needs and engenders a democratic deficit.
In Refugee Women: Beyond Gender versus Culture, new theoretical perspectives recast both the story told and who tells the tale. By focusing on the politics underlying how these debates are framed and the experiences of women at the heart of these controversies, women are considered first and foremost as democratic agents rather than actors in the 'culture versus gender' script. Crucially, the institutions and processes created to address women's needs are critically assessed from this perspective.
Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel argues that this debate ignores the realities of the women at its heart. In these debates, Muslim women are constructed as silent victims. Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life. The book will appeal to students and scholars throughout the social sciences, particularly of sociology, political science and women's studies.
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