Reproducing the ‘national home’: gendering domopolitics

Lonergan, Gwyneth

doi:10.1080/13621025.2017.1406455

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“…English language, as before, is to act as the ‘panacea’ (Greenwood and Robins, , p. 507; Sasse, , p. 678) to the ills caused by a lack of integration (Khan, ) and serve as an antidote to radicalization. These Muslim migrant women are the vehicle for this panacea of English language because they are biological and social ‘reproducers’ of the nation (Yuval‐Davis and Anthias, ; Yuval‐Davis and Anthias, ), who will, it is argued, raise young people with the correct values (Lonergan, ; Yuval‐Davis et al ., ; see also Morrice, ). It is vital, according to Casey, for this existing culture of failed care to be transformed by using the English language as the vehicle to impose the correct British values – and in turn, the correct forms of care and control – on Muslim groups.…”

Section: Subjectivation By Care: Muslim Women and ‘Failed Care ’mentioning

confidence: 99%

Austerity and the Politics of Becoming

Emejulu

Bassel

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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Section: Subjectivation By Care: Muslim Women and ‘Failed Care ’mentioning

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Austerity and the Politics of Becoming

Emejulu

Bassel

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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“…New arrivals who have not paid taxes and yet demonstrate 'excessive need' due to disability or chronic illness, and who need interpretation or cultural mediation support, are vulnerable to being seen as undeserving. Women migrants who do not appear to have integrated properly are blamed and perceived as problematic (Casey, 2016) given their role as mothers (Lonergan, 2018). The cases presented in this paper are all women of migrant background.…”

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Universalism, diversity and norms: gratitude, healthcare and welfare chauvinism

Bradby

Humphris

Padilla

2018

Critical Public Health

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Access to universal healthcare is a normative expectation of citizens in European welfare states. As part of a comparative study of healthcare in diverse European neighbourhoods, we met women who described failures of the public healthcare system, together with gratitude for that system. Challenges to European welfare states of ageing populations, the retraction of resources available for healthcare, and globalised migration streams have been linked to xenophobic 'welfarist' attempts to restrict access to services for new arrivals and those seen as failing to contribute sufficiently. Stories of healthcare systems' failure to treat symptoms, pain, and suffering in a timely and caring fashion came from eight women of non-European migrant backgrounds as part of a wider interview study in four European cities (Birmingham, Uppsala, Lisbon, Bremen). These accounts suggest that a normative aspect of welfare provision has been reproducedthat is, the expression of gratitudedespite inadequate services. Where welfarist attitudes to migration meet normative aspects of healthcare, suffering may be compounded by an expectation of gratitude. The regrettable unmet healthcare need of the eight women whose cases are presented suggests that other marginalised healthcare users may also be under-served in apparently universal healthcare systems.

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“…Even more recent is the abolition, in 1981, of the Italian national version of 'honor crimes' and 'reparative marriages' 3 . That domopolitics (a term coined to describe the securitizing politics of countries as national homes, Walters 2004) is first and foremost an everyday politics of gender reproduced in the home (Lonergan 2018) is a subject far too often reduced to feminist claims 4 . The gendered inequality intrinsic to the domestic space actually crosses places and times, and stands as a transcultural social issue, universal in its particular expressive modalities.…”

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Resistant vulnerability: Voices of feminist dissent from the Panjabi minority in Italy

Bonfanti

2022

DiGeSt - Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies

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Set in Brescia, an Italian city with a sizeable Indo-Pakistani minority, this article considers the media panic that honor killings raised and echoed nationwide since 2006. Based on extensive ethnographic work, the article draws from participant observation and personal narratives shared with Panjabi locals to investigate such ‘cultural crimes’, pondering which status of victim is (self-)ascribed to ‘Brown immigrant’ women. While the remnants of a Mediterranean culture of ‘honor-and-shame’ is almost forgotten today in the country, the repressive control that South Asian women seem to endure within their domestic environments saw the simultaneous condemnation from different social actors. As racialized Islamophobia escalates, the protection of migrant/ethnic women from honour-related violence (HRV) becomes more complex: who is entitled to ‘defend’ them? When and where can these women raise their own voices? The intersectional resistance that Panjabi women in Italy oppose against the objectification inflicted on them by family, community and public discourses (liberal feminist, multicultural or chauvinist) can barely be heard. Concurring with critical literature on HRV, this article argues to critically interrogate the idea of culture as a motivation for violence against minority women but also recognizes the pervasiveness of such narrative in the strenuous efforts waged by the same subjects in voicing their distress.

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Reproducing the ‘national home’: gendering domopolitics

Cited by 11 publications

References 48 publications

Austerity and the Politics of Becoming

Austerity and the Politics of Becoming

Universalism, diversity and norms: gratitude, healthcare and welfare chauvinism

Resistant vulnerability: Voices of feminist dissent from the Panjabi minority in Italy

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