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Refugee Women

Beyond Gender Versus Culture

By: Leah Bassel

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Refugee Women

Beyond Gender Versus Culture

By: Leah Bassel

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. Breaking from scholarship that focuses on whether the accommodation of culture and religion harms women, Bassel pleads compellingly for a consideration of women in all their complexity, as active participants in democratic life.

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0415603609

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Refugee Women

Beyond Gender Versus Culture

By: Leah Bassel

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Refugee Women

Beyond Gender Versus Culture

By: Leah Bassel

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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1136850562

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The Politics of Listening

Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life

By: Leah Bassel

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The Politics of Listening

Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life

By: Leah Bassel

This book explores listening as a social and political practice, in contrast to the more common focus on voice and speaking. The author draws on cases from Canada, France and the United Kingdom, exploring: minority women and debates over culture and religion; riots and young men in France and England; citizen journalism and the creative use of different media; and solidarity between migrant justice and indigenous activists. Analysis across these diverse settings considers whether and how a politics of listening, which demands that the roles of speakers and listeners change, can be undertaken in adversarial and tense political moments. The Politics of Listening argues that such a practice has the potential to create new ways of being and acting together, as political equals who are heard on their own terms. The book will appeal to students and scholars across a range of disciplines, including sociology and political theory.

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Springer

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1137531673

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9781137531674

Minority Women and Austerity

Survival and Resistance in France and Britain

By: Bassel, Leah,Emejulu, Akwugo

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Minority Women and Austerity

Survival and Resistance in France and Britain

By: Bassel, Leah,Emejulu, Akwugo

EPUB and EPDF available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. In the first book of its kind, Bassel and Emejulu explore minority women’s experiences of and resistances to austerity measures in France and Britain. Minority women are often portrayed as passive victims. However, Minority women and austerity demonstrates how they use their race, class, gender and legal status as a resource for collective action in the face of the neoliberal colonisation of non-governmental organisations, the failures of left-wing politics and the patronising initiatives of policy-makers. Using in-depth case studies, this book explores the changing relations between the state, the market and civil society which create opportunities and dilemmas for minority women activists. Through an intersectional ‘politics of survival’ these women seek to subvert the dominant narratives of ‘crisis’ and ‘activism’.

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Policy Press

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1447327160

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9781447327165

The Politics of Listening

Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life

By: Leah Bassel

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Possibilities and Challenges for Democratic Life

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Victimology

A Text/Reader

By: Leah E. Daigle

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Victimology

A Text/Reader

By: Leah E. Daigle

This book provides an overview of the field of victimology, including a collection of carefully selected articles that have previously appeared in leading journals, along with original material in a mini-chapter format that contextualizes the concepts. It provides the history and development of the field of victimology, explains who is victimized and why, explains how the criminal justice system and other social services interact with victims and each other, and provides information about specific types of victimization."--Back cover.

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1412987326

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9781412987325

Minority Women and Austerity

Survival and Resistance in France and Britain

By: Bassel, Leah,Emejulu, Akwugo

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Minority Women and Austerity

Survival and Resistance in France and Britain

By: Bassel, Leah,Emejulu, Akwugo

As austerity measures continue throughout Europe, its effects are felt differently by different groups of citizens. This book looks at how minority women in France and Britain have coped with austerity. Crucially, it casts them not as passive victims, but as active agents finding ways to survive, using their race, class, gender, and legal status as resources for collective action at a moment when left-wing politics and non-governmental organizations have failed them. Making use of in-depth case studies, Minority Women and Austerity offers an unprecedented look at the changing relationship among the state, the market, and civil society, and the opportunities and dilemmas that creates for minority women.

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1447327136

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Refugee Women

Refugee Women

Refugee Women

Refugee Women

The Politics of Listening

The Politics of Listening

Minority Women and Austerity

Minority Women and Austerity

The Politics of Listening

The Politics of Listening

Victimology

Victimology

Minority Women and Austerity

Minority Women and Austerity

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