Integration discourses, the purification of gender and interventions in family migrations
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Kofman, E. 2023. Integration discourses, the purification of gender and interventions in family migrations. Ethnic and Racial Studies. 46 (14), pp. 3037-3057. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2166791
Type | Article |
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Title | Integration discourses, the purification of gender and interventions in family migrations |
Authors | Kofman, E. |
Abstract | In a hard-hitting critique of integration, Schinkel (2018) highlights the purification of class and race which evacuates explanatory variables from studies of integration as a concept and practice. Surprisingly gendered purification is left out. This article argues that a range of gender issues presenting migrant women, especially from Muslim countries, as being deficient in modernity and contributing to poor social reproduction through their family practices and transnational ties, were at the forefront of political calls for intervention in family lives and the implementation of integration measures in the past two decades. In part this reflects an attempt to alter the class composition of family migrants and bring them closer to middle class norms and values. Such reductionist and homogenising representations continue despite the complexity of contemporary family migrations and practices, thus reinforcing the continuing purification and simplification of categories of analysis in discussions of racialised gender and classed integration in West European societies. |
Keywords | Purification; integration ; gender; class; Muslims; family; migration |
Sustainable Development Goals | 5 Gender equality |
Middlesex University Theme | Creativity, Culture & Enterprise |
Research Group | Social Policy Research Centre (SPRC) |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis (Routledge) |
Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
ISSN | 0141-9870 |
Electronic | 1466-4356 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 09 Feb 2023 |
26 Oct 2023 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 09 Jan 2023 |
Submitted | 21 Jan 2022 |
Accepted | 06 Dec 2022 |
Output status | Published |
Publisher's version | License |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2166791 |
Web of Science identifier | WOS:000932101200001 |
Language | English |
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