Islamophobia and the Europeanness of the other Europe

Sayyid, S.

doi:10.1080/0031322x.2018.1512481

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“…In the same vein, Sayyid (2018) interprets Islamophobia as the result of the crisis of "Europeanness", related to national anxieties regarding the protection of national identities, which are considered to be endangered in the globalizing world, wrongly attributed to Muslims.…”

Section: Exclusionary Populism Immigration and Islamophobiamentioning

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Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain

Cervi

2020

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Exclusionary populism is well known for twisting real grievances of the citizens, by problematizing the gap between “us” and “them”, capitalizing on identity lines, calling out as “others” those who do not share “pure people’s” identity and culture. Especially after 9/11, Muslims have become the ideal-type of “other”, making Islamophobia the primary populist anti-paradigm. This article contributes to the burgeoning literature on Islamophobic populism analyzing the presence of Islamophobia in the electoral discourse of Vox party in Spain and Lega in Italy. In addition, it makes a novel contribution by discussing and testing the existence of different models of Islamophobia, distinguishing between “banal Islamophobia” and “ontological Islamophobia”. Applying clause-based semantic text analysis—including qualitative and quantitative variables—to thirty speeches by the two party leaders, Santiago Abascal and Matteo Salvini, during the last three elections (General, Regional and European), the paper concludes that, despite the similarities, the two politician display two different models of Islamophobia. Whereas Abascal displays a clear “ontological Islamophobia”, depicting Muslims ontologically incompatible with Spanish civilization (defined precisely by its anti-Muslim history), the latter presents a mix of arguments that oscillate between “ontological” and “banal” Islamophobia.

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Section: Exclusionary Populism Immigration and Islamophobiamentioning

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Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain

Cervi

2020

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“…At the same time, the nation is broadly claiming that its public is untouched by and certainly not influenced by the idea of race. In this sense, ‘Polish-centrism’ has a deeper dynamic than Catholic religiosity, but focuses much more on the national/continental identity that is intrinsic to the formation and definition of who is European and who is not (Benson & Lewis, 2019; Sayyid, 2018).…”

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Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Balogun

2020

The Sociological Review

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Whilst scholarship has sought to consider migration in Poland, there has been a lack of engagement with the ways in which race and racism interact with migration. In this article, I map the figures in the Polish imaginary of European, and examine whether Poland has different, if related, histories of racial thinking. I ask how such histories have been conceived, shaped and mediated. To examine this, I focus on the lived experiences of sub-Saharan African immigrants and children of immigrants (Black/mixed-race) who are often portrayed as non-Europeans and seen by some as ‘not quite Polish’. In doing so, this article provides an insight into the racial contours of Polish self-conception. I call this logic ‘Polish-centrism’ – a focus on some aspects of Polish culture to the exclusion of a wider view of the world. It is within this logic that I examine what it means to be Black and Polish in Poland.

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“…In recent years, there have been several articles dealing with the issue of Islamophobia in Eastern Europe (Lewicki 2018;Bobako 2018;Sayyid 2018). This article further explores the issue of Islamophobia in Eastern Europe, particularly on the Czech political scene during the 2015 migration crisis which the European Union (EU) had to deal with.…”

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Islamophobic Discourse of Czech Politicians and Political Parties on Twitter during the 2015 Migration Crisis

Vallo

Jaworek

Matlach

2020

Journal of Nationalism, Memory &Amp; Language Politics

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This article focuses on the manifestations of Islamophobia of Czech politicians and political parties on the social networking service Twitter during the 2015 migration crisis. It utilizes the securitization theory of Copenhagen school as a theoretical framework, and through content analysis of relevant tweets aims to provide more data on what role Islamophobia played in the securitization of incoming migrants. We find that although securitization, and much more politicization, of migrants took place, obvious Islamophobia, similar to the one of the Czech Islamophobic movement, happened only in some cases. A number of those politicians who politicized or migrants and Islam usually raised their voices against radical Islamophobes.

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Islamophobia and the Europeanness of the other Europe

Cited by 50 publications

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Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain

Exclusionary Populism and Islamophobia: A Comparative Analysis of Italy and Spain

Race and racism in Poland: Theorising and contextualising ‘Polish-centrism’

Islamophobic Discourse of Czech Politicians and Political Parties on Twitter during the 2015 Migration Crisis

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