Space and Polity
Volume 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 13-32

The limits of multicultural tolerance? Liberal democracy and media portrayals of muslim migrant women in Germany (Article)

Ehrkamp P.*
  • a Department of Geography, University of Kentucky, 1457 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506, United States

Abstract

This article examines how Muslim migrant women's sexuality is instrumentalised to erect gendered and cultural boundaries of citizenship and liberal democracy in Germany. German newspaper articles on forced marriages and honour killings for a period of 10 years (1998-2008) are analysed to show how constructions of social, religious and spatial differences serve to homogenise the space of liberal democracy and the exclusion of Islam from it, thereby undermining such ideals of liberal democratic citizenship as equality. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.

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Index Keywords

Germany liberalism multiculturalism citizenship Islamism democracy womens status
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-77951659670&doi=10.1080%2f13562571003737718&partnerID=40&md5=592f33c17c3111d05782bc00ee7c2e00
DOI: 10.1080/13562571003737718
ISSN: 13562576
Cited by: 27
Original Language: English