SOC425H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Focus Group, In Re Kasinga, Gender Equality
Document Summary
Islam, gender, and immigrant integration: boundary drawing in discourses on honour killing in the. In 2005, public debate on family violence among muslim immigrants, especially honour killing, intensified in the netherlands and germany. In the netherlands, such debates ignited after the murder of theo van gogh, whose film. Submission criticized violence against women in muslim societies. In the netherlands, we saw evidence for both bright and blurred boundary drawing, though in each of the three newspapers, bright boundaries dominated: honour killing is a component of something bigger. It has to do with sexual morality within islam, the desire to control women"s sexuality a woman who does not abide by the rules is allowed to be expelled. In germany bright boundary drawing also dominates, though less than in the netherlands. In both countries, these cultural elements intersect differently in discourses that contain possibilities for boundary blurring: gender equality is positioned as a universal (human rights) value that is congruent with.
