Islamophobia in France and the “Algerian Problem”

MacMaster, Neil

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“…Some authors deploy Islamophobia without explicitly defining it (Bunzl, 2007;Cole, 2009;Halliday, 1999;Kaplan, 2006;MacMaster, 2003;Poynting & Mason, 2007). Others use characterizations that are vague, narrow, or generic.…”

Section: Islamophobia: the Origins And Imprecision Of A Conceptmentioning

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“…A third type of research conflates Islamophobia with attitudes toward overlapping ethnic, national-origin, or immigrant-status groups. In these cases, contemporary histories of anti-Arab, anti-South Asian, or anti-immigrant sentiments and policies (MacMaster, 2003;Poynting & Mason, 2007;Vertovec, 2002) or examples of discrimination or attacks against groups that are predominantly Muslim (EUMC, 2006, pp 44-62), or composite measures that mix together responses about Islam/ Muslims with those about national origin or ethnic groups (Stolz, 2005, pp. 555-556) serve as indicators of Islamophobia.…”

Section: Measuring Islamophobiamentioning

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What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept

Bleich

2011

American Behavioral Scientist

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Islamophobia is an emerging comparative concept in the social sciences. Yet there is no widely accepted definition of Islamophobia that permits systematic comparative and causal analysis. This article explores how the term Islamophobia has been deployed in public and scholarly debates, emphasizing that these discussions have taken place on multiple registers. It then draws on research on concept formation, prejudice, and analogous forms of status hierarchies to offer a usable social scientific definition of Islamophobia as indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Islam or Muslims. The article discusses the types of indicators that are most appropriate for measuring Islamophobia as well as the benefits of concept development for enabling comparative and causal analysis.

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Section: Islamophobia: the Origins And Imprecision Of A Conceptmentioning

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Section: Measuring Islamophobiamentioning

confidence: 98%

What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept

Bleich

2011

American Behavioral Scientist

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“…As MacMaster argues, it was no accident "that the raging controversy over the integration and assimilation of ethnic minorities should center on the state school." 49 At the end of the 1980s, migration specialists in France endorsed the idea that the positive integration of immigrants from southern Europe in France "had been achieved through the institutions and associations of the French working class (the PCF, trade unions, sports clubs) and the Catholic Church. By the 1980s such bridges into French society were no longer functioning."…”

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From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation

Farris¹

2014

Constellations

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“…Many Algerians also speak, read, or write French, while according to a study published in 2007, some 52% of Algerians regularly watch French‐language satellite television (Benrabah :105). In this case, too, proximity and labour migration have been crucial: Algeria sits across the Mediterranean from France, and economically‐motivated migrations have taken Algerians there in growing numbers since World War I (MacMaster :291). The results of linguistic diffusion – which were partly the result of time spent abroad (Heggoy :185) – are astonishing.…”

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Language and Conflict: The Political History of Arabisation in Sudan and Algeria

Sharkey

2012

Studies Ethnicity & National

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Upon decolonisation, nationalist leaders in two North African countries, Algeria and Sudan, promoted a policy called Arabisation (ta'rib), which sought to impose standard literary Arabic at the expense of English (in Sudan), French (in Algeria), and other local languages (in both places). This language policy reflected the worldview of Muslim leaders, who hoped to break from the colonial past and start afresh while forging alliances with Arab Islamic states. Arabisation succeeded in expanding the use of literary Arabic in Sudanese and Algerian government bureaus as well as in schools and universities. However, in some circles it helped to stimulate oppositional identities that rejected pan‐Arabism as a focal point for national pride and that challenged the cultural foundations of national cohesion. Taking a comparative approach, this study argues that Arabic language policy in Algeria and Sudan featured strongly in postcolonial nationalism and civil conflict. It concludes by considering the status of language cultures and policies today in Algeria, the Republic of the Sudan, and the newly independent Republic of South Sudan, and contends that state‐led efforts at ‘language rationalisation’ have not eliminated multilingualism in practice.

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Islamophobia in France and the “Algerian Problem”

Cited by 29 publications

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What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept

What Is Islamophobia and How Much Is There? Theorizing and Measuring an Emerging Comparative Concept

From the Jewish Question to the Muslim Question. Republican Rigorism, Culturalist Differentialism and Antinomies of Enforced Emancipation

Language and Conflict: The Political History of Arabisation in Sudan and Algeria

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