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Abstract
Sites of Muslim settlement in the UK are frequently portrayed as poorly integrated and governed areas – a situation that is often attributed to the excessive cultural and religious accommodation of Muslim minorities under flawed policies of state multiculturalism. Through a case study of an English city, Birmingham, home to the UK’s largest Muslim population outside of London, I argue that sites of Muslim settlement have, rather, been subject to extraordinary and punitive governing practices. These governing practices moreover rely for their legitimacy on the portrayal of these sites as poorly integrated and governed. Nevertheless, whilst areas of Muslim settlement have been subject to spatially focused, punitive forms of governance, these have not necessarily been fully coherent and they have also been contested.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2497-2515 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 11 |
Early online date | 28 Nov 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 28 Nov 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council/Economic and Social Research Council [grant number AH/H016066/1]. I would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers of this article for their constructive suggestions, and Julia O?Connell Davidson, John Holmwood and Justin Cruickshank for their help and advice on earlier drafts.
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© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Research Groups and Themes
- SPAIS Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
Keywords
- Muslims
- Prevent
- counter extremism
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Muslim Participation in Contemporary Governance
O'Toole, T. (Principal Investigator), Modood, T. (Co-Principal Investigator), Jones, S. H. (Researcher), Nilsson DeHanas, D. (Researcher) & Meer, N. (Collaborator)
1/07/10 → 1/01/13
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Professor Therese O'Toole
- School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies - Head of School, Professor of Sociology
- Bristol Poverty Institute
- Migration Mobilities Bristol
- Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship
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