Ideal liberal subjects and Muslim “Others”: liberal nationalism and the racialization of Muslim youth in a progressive Danish school

Constructing and Navigating Belonging along Local, National, and Transnational Dimensions: Inclusive Refugee Education for Syrian Refugee Youth in Jordan

“…The shared social locations and cultural factors, included identities as Muslims and Arabs, combined with the relations that the girls forged with each other and their teachers, allowed for a feeling of home in the FT space. These shared identities stand in stark contrast to the settings of other studies on im/migrant belonging, where Arab and Muslim youth are positioned as impossible subjects, outside the cultural and religious imaginaries (Abu El-Haj et al 2017;Jaffe-Walter 2019). In Jordan, these shared identities open up the possibility of cultivating community and local belonging, though much is still to be Cohen Constructing and Navigating Belonging 233 negotiated within these relationships.…”

“…This paper brings together the theory of belonging and the politics of belonging (e.g., Anthias 2006;Antonsich 2010;Yuval-Davis 2011) with the literature on inclusive refugee education (e.g., Bellino and Dryden-Peterson 2018;Dryden-Peterson et al 2019) and the anthropology of education scholarship that addresses the belonging of transnational youth and the everyday nationalism of schooling that shapes belonging (e.g., Abu El-Haj 2015;Benei 2008;Jaffe-Walter 2016). To examine the ways that youth navigate belonging, I draw on Chee's local-national-global framework of citizen-making (2020) which argues that belonging is created at the intersection, overlap, and divergence of these three dimensions.…”

“…A growing body of literature within the anthropology of education examines the ways that transnational youth understand everyday nationalism in school and navigate belonging in light of their (perceived) religious, racial, and national affiliations (Abu El-Haj 2015;Benei, 2008;Ghaffar-Kucher 2012;Jaffe-Walter, 2016;Shirazi, 2018b). Abu El-Haj shows how Palestinian American youth navigate the exclusionary politics of belonging that emerge out of American nationalism within schools.…”

A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism

“…Universalism functioned in ‘seemingly benign race-neutral ways’ in our schools, (Jaffe-Walter, 2019: 286). These multicultural schools normalised the moral values of respect and tolerance but the role of race in schools, and society, is overlooked under cover of colour-blind moral values of goodness, decency, kindness and rationality.…”

Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World

“…It has been documented, for example, in progressive Danish schools (e.g. Jaffe-Walter 2019). It has also been shown to be emblematic of progressive US Democratic principles more generally (Wetts and Willer 2019)-what Nancy Fraser (2019) has labeled progressive neoliberalism.…”