"Muslims' integration as a way to defuse the "Muslim Question

Insights from the Swiss case

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ID3867967
AutoresMatteo Gianni (0000-0001-7584-9525, University of Geneva, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume4
Fascículo1
Páginas21-36
Data de publicação2016-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoCritical Research on Religion (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/2050303216630070
OpenAlexW2325164015
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências citadas38

The article argues that in European public debates the Muslim Question is performed by and linked to the issues of Muslims' integration and recognition as political (unthreatening) subjects. I suggest that, in order to defuse the performative negative effects of the Muslim Question on Muslims' democratic agency, we should address it without rendering them invisible in the public sphere and in enhancing their political agency. Drawing from an analysis of the Swiss case I show that integration because adjustment entails a depoliticization and a normalization of Muslims' political agency. In this way, integration as a process acts as an alternative and as a way to empower Muslim political subjectivity and therefore the fairest way to tackle the undemocratic impact of the Muslim Question

Democracy · Epistemology · Performative utterance · Political economy · Political science · Political subjectivity · Politics · Public sphere · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Philosophy · Religion, Theology, and Education