The Mute Symbols of Islam
Résumé
The public visibility of religious and cultural signs of Islam expresses the presence of Muslim actors in European countries. The minarets--as, in other respects the veils, the other mute symbol--reveal the Muslim actor--as pious, as feminine--in public life. Islam, in a paradoxical way, has become a political and cultural resource for the singularization of immigrants, for their quest for recognition, and so it indicates in turn their particular citizenship in the public space of Europe. This new visibility marks the end of a stage in the migratory phenomenon and in the integration, lived experience, and modes of appropriation of public space in Europe. What hides behind the controversies around Islam is the difficulty of recognizing this passage from the stranger to the citizen.
Domaines
Sociologie
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