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Gender, Islamophobia, and refugee exceptionalism
2019This chapter analyzes how gender interfaces with xenophobic and Islamophobic bias to exclude young males from Muslim-majority countries from third country refugee resettlement programs under the 1951 Refugee Convention. It explores how the narratives around Islamophobia, masculinity, and gender norms affect if a person is classified as vulnerable and ...
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The Matrix of Gendered Islamophobia: Muslim Women’s Repression and Resistance
Gender & Society, 2020Drawing on 75 semi-structured qualitative interviews with Arab, South Asian, and Black Muslim women social justice activists, ages 18–30 years, organizing in the United States and the United Kingdom, I theorize their experiences as the basis of the matrix of gendered Islamophobia.
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Introduction: Gender, Islamophobia and the Security Discourse
2016The Introduction begins with an exploration of contemporary debates about Muslims and terrorism in the West. It traces the evolution of Islamophobia as an Orientalist discourse that ‘racializes’ and ‘securitizes’ Muslim communities. From the physical threat of Isis and its members to an ideological battle with Islam and its place in the West, the ...
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Gendered Islamophobia: hate crime against Muslim women
Social Identities, 2013Post 9/11, most western nations have seen dramatic increases in bias motivated violence against Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim. Predicated on the long-lived vilification of Muslims by the media and the state, such violence is a reactionary reminder of Muslims' outsider status.
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Conclusion: Gender, Islamophobia and the Security Discourse—Future Challenges
2016The concluding chapter examines the implications of the discussion in the book for Muslims in Britain and other countries in the West. The conclusion in exploring future challenges highlights the experiences of Muslim communities across Europe and the USA, where similar policies of surveillance and insecurity continue to implicate innocent Muslims. The
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Hindutva and the Muslim Problem: An Exploration of Gendered Islamophobia in India
This chapter examines the nature of gendered Islamophobia in India in relation to the spread of Hindutva under the BJP government. In particular, the chapter focuses on the institutionalization of Islamophobia through examples of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019, the National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam, the Abrogation of Article 370 ...openaire +2 more sources
Embodying the Veil: Muslim Women and Gendered Islamophobia in ‘New Times’
2012In this chapter, I explore the intersectional dynamics of race, gender and religion by looking at the relationship between gendered Islamophobic discourses that circulate in the ‘West’ and the embodied identity of professional Muslim women working in universities in Britain.
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The Left, Liberalism and Gendered Islamophobia in France, and Belgium
Since November 2020, the French government under Emmanuel Macron has decried the so-called rife nature of Islamo-gauchisme, an alleged but vague alliance between the political left and ‘Islamism’, which in practice ultimately stigmatises decoloniality but also any sympathy and humanising of French Muslimness that does not conform to the state’s desiredopenaire +1 more source