عنوان

The hijab and France

Number

TL48229

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

The hijab and France

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Faisal Nijad Abdelrahman

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Searing, Donald

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2015

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

46

Text of Note

Committee members: Stephens, John D.; Vachudova, Milada

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-75663-0

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Political Science

Body granting the degree

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Text preceding or following the note

2015

Text of Note

This paper addresses the 2004 French ban on hijabs being worn in France's public schools. Though legally phrased as a prohibition on conspicuous religious symbols, the debate on and subsequent passage of the ban was centered on the hijab; the head covering fabric that is traditionally associated with Muslim women. Through analysis of the debate this paper intends to answer the question of why hijabs were banned, arguing that a narrative of protecting the French concept of secularism known as lacïté was constructed to achieve broad support from French society when the real issues were centered on France's fears of Islam, the inability of Muslim immigrants to assimilate in French society, and the challenges that the Muslim French community presents to the traditional concept of French identity.

Religious history; European Studies; Middle Eastern Studies; International law

Subject Term

Philosophy, religion and theology;Social sciences;France;Hijab;Muslin

Madu, Ifeanyi V.

Searing, Donald

Subdivision

Political Science

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Call Number

1685959394; 1588951

Electronic name

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[Thesis]

276903

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