“We cannot turn a blind eye”: interrogating integration policies of concern for Muslim girls in Denmark

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Abstract

This article traces the development of Danish integration policy regimes targeting Muslim girls to consider the insidious ways that these policy regimes have expanded over time, empowering local organizations and actors (municipal authorities, non-profit organizations, leaders, teachers) to engage in racialized surveillance of Muslim girls and families. Drawing on a critical examination of national and municipal policies focused on the emancipation of Muslim women in Denmark, it considers how policy problematizations of Muslim women and families have changed over time and how politicians use these representations to justify increased surveillance and coercive interventions, extending to girls’ sexual and marriage choices. It examines how integration policies animated by logics of concern, sympathy, and fear promise inclusion while enacting interventions that foster exclusion. In doing so, it calls a critical examination of the logics of integration policies, tracking the ways they materialize in schools and are embodied by those they target.

Original languageEnglish
JournalEthnic and Racial Studies
DOIs
StateAccepted/In press - 2025

Keywords

  • education policy
  • gender
  • Integration
  • Muslim youth
  • nationalism
  • racialization

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