Muslims in France and Great Britain: Issues of Securitization, Identities and Loyalties Post 9/11

Ajala, Imène

doi:10.1080/13602004.2014.911583

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“…For example, the Islamic revolution in Iran led Islam to be perceived as directly incompatible with democracy. 18 Islam has been interpreted to conflict with freedom of expression in the popular imagination as a result of the Rushdie Affair, the Danish Cartoon Crisis and the Charlie Hebdo Crisis. Similarly, the prohibition of apostasy and debates surrounding secularism have led Islam to be constructed as incompatible with freedom of religion within Europe.…”

Section: The Construction Of Migrants As a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU Migration Pact and Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion

Berry¹,

Taban²

2022

Eur. Yearb. Minor. Issues Onl.

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The European Commission, following the adoption of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum, has released the Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion 2021–2027 (hereinafter “The Action Plan”). The Action Plan outlines recommendations that aim to foster integrated and cohesive societies. However, this article argues that the understanding of integration advanced by the Action Plan has the potential to be counterproductive. Utilizing the expertise of minority rights bodies in the field of diversity management, this article scrutinizes the Action Plan’s approach, highlighting that it suffers from several distinct flaws. Specifically, the Action Plan is underpinned by a narrative that securitizes both Islam and migration; conflates integration with assimilation; and adopts a thin understanding of integration and intercultural dialogue. Moving forward, the EU should take heed of the work of minority rights bodies to develop a comprehensive integration strategy.

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Section: The Construction Of Migrants As a Threatmentioning

confidence: 99%

The EU Migration Pact and Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion

Berry¹,

Taban²

2022

Eur. Yearb. Minor. Issues Onl.

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“…After several attacks by asylum seekers, Germany has gone through its processing mechanism for recently arrived migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers (Faiola, A & Kirchner, S, 2016). Campaigns against mass immigration and, inevitably, the "Islamization" of the Europe, with the latter being perceived as a security concern and a threat to "Western values" (Ajala, 2014) Waever (2003 asserts that powerful and well-known Muslims experience hatred from the non-believing actors. It features actors who contend that Islam threatens secular norms, political norms, and European values (existential danger), and that justifies extraordinary actions against it.…”

Section: Islamophobia As a Security Threat Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Media Representation of Islam and Muslims as a Security Threat

2022

AHSS

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This study aims to provide a summary of the research on the security dimension of Islamophobia and the recent portrayal of Islam and Muslims in the Western media as a security threats. The study attempts to present a review of the findings as well as the theoretical and methodological frameworks used in various studies to analyze the representations of Islam and Muslims as a security threat that are being produced by western news media. Drawing on various approaches, research shows that discussions and discourses about Islam and Muslims are frequently produced using a variety methodologies. The research has confirmed that there is a "security threat" rhetoric that promotes and contributing towards the securitization of Islam and Muslims. The findings also showed that Western news media contained securitized images of Islam and Muslims.

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“…The 'high policing tactics' that are often linked to securitisation, and which have become embedded in everyday policing practice, can be experienced by the public, and particularly minority groups, as threatening, humiliating, intrusive and insensitive (see Jonathan-Zamir, Hasisi, and Margalioth 2016, 613-614). Several studies in various contexts have demonstrated how processes of securitisation, and the counter-terrorism policies and practices used in the pursuit of security, can have a discriminatory, stigmatising, marginalising or alienating effect, creating and sustaining 'suspect communities' in the climate of prevailing terrorist threats (see Hickman et al 2007;Brown 2008;Breen Smyth 2009;Pantazis and Pemberton 2009;Spalek 2010Spalek , 2011Awan 2012;Mythen 2012;Mythen, Walklate, and Khan 2013;Ajala 2014;Vermeulen 2014). Certainly, the ethics and morality of securitisation are of interest to scholars, practitioners and the general public (Floyd 2016, 80-82).…”

Section: The Securitisation Of the Museummentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Now that you mention it, museums probably are a target’: museums, terrorism and security in the United Kingdom

Atkinson

Yates

Brooke

2019

Museum Management and Curatorship

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This article explores counter-terrorism security practices at museums in the United Kingdom (UK), locations that terrorists have targeted through both propaganda and operational activity. Drawing upon research that re-interprets the museum within the 'single narrative' of global jihadist terrorism, an outlook that justifies and legitimises the targeting of socio-cultural sites from instrumental and symbolic perspectives, this article highlights the important roles of the police Counter Terrorism Security Adviser (CTSA) and the museum security manager in counter-terrorism practice at museums in the UK. The practices of highlighting risk to the museum and managing risk in the museum environment are subsequently outlined. In doing so two key challenges facing counter-terrorism security practice in the museum are noted: the cost of implementing counter-terrorism measures and the cultural challenge of communicating and responsibly embedding such security thinking in everyday practice. The researchers also reflect upon the potential consequences of the implementation of counter-terrorism security measures at museums as a form of securitisation.

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Muslims in France and Great Britain: Issues of Securitization, Identities and Loyalties Post 9/11

Cited by 19 publications

References 9 publications

The EU Migration Pact and Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion

The EU Migration Pact and Action Plan on Integration and Inclusion

Media Representation of Islam and Muslims as a Security Threat

‘Now that you mention it, museums probably are a target’: museums, terrorism and security in the United Kingdom

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