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Weg met de integratie 14

Headline / Multiculti Issues / Public Islam / Religious and Political Radicalization / Some personal considerations

Weg met de integratie

Als er iets vanzelfsprekend lijkt in alle discussies over moslims dan is het wel dat zij moeten integreren. Integratie wordt over het algemeen gezien als iets dat goed is, maar is verworden tot een totalitair systeem waarin iedere eigenheid van migranten moet worden weggewerkt. Wetenschappers staan vaak vooraan om de overheid van advies te dienen over het integratiebeleid waarmee we eigenlijk kritiekloos het hele integratieparadigma reproduceren én legitimeren. Misschien is het tijd om dat niet meer te doen? Misschien is het tijd om allochtonen te adviseren vooral niet teveel in dit land te investeren? Waarom zou men immers?

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Blogosphere

Closing the week 40

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)

Cosmo-Salafists in Europe and the Middle East 5

ISIM/RU Research / Ritual and Religious Experience / Young Muslims

Cosmo-Salafists in Europe and the Middle East

Salafism can be seen as a transnational movement; originating in the Middle East it has acquired a more global outlook with local characteristics in Africa, Asia, America’s and Europe. This of course fuels the discourse of the Middle East as a hotbed for radicals but less well known is that there is a reverse influence as well. Salafis from other continents travelling to the Middle East, as is explored by journalist Alexander Weissink in a recent article.

Whose body is it anyway? | Amsterdam mayor: No Benefit with Burqa 1

Gender, Kinship & Marriage Issues / ISIM/RU Research / Public Islam

Whose body is it anyway? | Amsterdam mayor: No Benefit with Burqa

It seems that, with a few notable exceptions, people in the Netherlands have been accustomed to the headscarf. The burqa or niqaab however is a different matter. As did his fellow social democrat Aboutaleb a few years ago, current mayor of Amsterdam, Cohen, stated that women with a burqa should not be allowed to receive benefit. By politicizing gender in relation to Islam, women become the core of the struggle between Muslims and native Dutch people over the control of the Muslims in the Netherlands. They have become the embodiment of the Islam debate and integration debate as well as many internal Muslim struggles.

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Blogosphere

Closing the week 39

A weekly round up of writings on the Internet, some relevant for my research, some political, some funny but all of them interesting (Dutch/English). (As usual to a large extent based upon suggestions from Dutch, other European, American and Middle Eastern readers. Thank you all.)

Riotous Rotterdam – Ethnography in the Netherlands 0

anthropology / Blogosphere / Multiculti Issues

Riotous Rotterdam – Ethnography in the Netherlands

I don’t think there that many people from abroad who are doing ethnographic research in the Netherlands. One exception is Ms. Long, a Canadian researcher who tries to understand the relationship between Dutch Muslims and Dutch natives by looking at how people interpret their belonging (and not belong) in relation to specific places and how this is influenced by national and Islamophobic sentiments.