Migrating concepts

Immigrant integration and the regulation of religious dress in France and Canada

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6255751
AutoresÉléonore Lépinard (0000-0002-8450-9976, Centre en Etudes Genre, Institut des Sciences Sociales, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, autor de correspondencia)
Año2015
Volumen15
Número5
Páginas611-632
Fecha de publicación2015-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnicities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1468796814529939
OpenAlexW2123878779
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas50

Religion in general, and Islam in particular, has become one of the main focal points of policy-making and constitutional politics in many Western liberal states. This article proposes to examine the legal and political dynamics behind new regulations targeting individual religious practices of Muslims. Although one could presuppose that church–state relations or the understanding of secularism is the main factor accounting for either accommodation or prohibition of Muslim religious practices, I make the case that the policy frame used to conceptualize the integration of immigrants in each national context is a more significant influence on how a liberal state approaches the legal regulation of individual practices such as veiling. However, this influence must be assessed carefully since it may have different effects on the different institutional actors in charge of regulating religion, such as the Courts and the legislature. To assess these hypotheses I compare two countries, France and Canada, which are solid examples of two contrasting national policy frames for the integration of immigrants

Accommodation · Context (archaeology · Immigration · Immigration policy · Islam · Legislature · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Reasonable accommodation · Secular state · Secularism · Sociology · State (computer science · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Public Administration · Religion and Society Interactions · Religion, Society, and Development