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Thursday 16 April 2015 15:30 - 17:00
PAPER SESSION 6 / PECHA KUCHA SESSIONS
women's and wider democratic rights, and juxtapose this with the more socially conservative 'Tea Party-wing' of the
Republican Party which, while celebrating American rights and freedoms, reject a gender and sexuality rights based
approach. We will argue that such 'analyses' of and attacks on Muslim extremism are based on chauvinistic culturalist
prejudice and in some cases racism or the post-race displacement of it onto a 'religion', as well as political
scapegoating and the legitimization of military action.
Islamophobia: Experiential Accounts of Pakistani and British Pakistani Muslim Women in England
Saeed, T.
(University of Oxford)
Experiential narratives of Islamophobia reveal a complex intersection between race, ethnicity and religion. While
debates continue amongst academic, policy and media actors about the meaning and scope of Islamophobia,
Muslims who suffer discrimination as a consequence of their religious, racial and ethnic identities are seldom provided
an opportunity to share their experiences, and shape the wider discussion. Furthermore, the intersection of different
identities in experiences of Islamophobia are overlooked, simplifying the problematic mix of other 'securitized'
categories such as ethnicity with religion in the overarching narrative of terrorism and Islam in Britain. This paper
examines accounts of Islamophobia amongst a group of Overseas Muslim Pakistanis and British Pakistani females
studying in universities in England. In particular, the paper reveals a vulnerability of identity attributed to both being
Muslim and being Pakistani. In understanding this phenomenon, both experiences of Islamophobia and a form of
'Pako-phobia' are explored, as well as opinions and perceptions of participants concerning their religious, ethnic, and
national identities, in the context of a socio-political security agenda that continues to render them suspect.
EDUCATION
Race, Ethnicity and Migration 2 – Pecha Kucha
W709, HAMISH WOOD BUILDING
‘Race, Class… They Can All be a Barrier if You Choose’: Exploring Intergenerational Differences in the
Educational Journeys and Aspirations of Black African and Black Caribbean Families
Franceschelli, M., Evans; K., Schoon, I.
(Institute of Education, University of London)
The article seeks to explore how Black African and Black Caribbean British parents and their children negotiate their
educational journeys and aspirations with elements of the social structure particularly class, race and gender. In so
doing, it addresses the question of how the socio-economic and institutional context influences individual educational
journeys and what are the turning points of these journeys according to respondents' accounts. While focusing on
education, the article also explores the intergenerational dynamics behind the transmission of aspirations.
With references to the work of the American sociologist Annette Laureu, the article is set in the wider debate about
intersectionality of class, race, gender and its influences on the intergenerational transmission of aspirations.
Drawing from narrative interviews with Black African and Black Caribbean parents and young people (aged 13-19
years old), this article provides unique primary data and intergenerational perspectives. The analysis suggests
intergenerational and gendered differences in the conceptualization of life opportunities and highlights a contradictory
mixture of hopes for a better future and concerns about barriers. Respondents challenged a sense of fatalism and predetermination,
associated with the paradigm of social reproduction, by relying more strongly on their own sense of
individual agency. However, the interview accounts also suggested awareness that the unequal structure of
opportunities persists. In the negotiation of these contrasting trends, respondents highlighted the complexity of
reconciling hopes for future progressions with the fears of possible regressions in a society in transition.
The Moral Economy of Temporary Migrants: International Student Mobilities as a Case of Temporary
Migrations
Kalia, M.
(University of Virginia)
The case of temporary migrations has gained some currency within different circles (World Bank, Political Scientists
and Sociologists). However, how to study and understand temporary migrations remains elusive. Using interview data
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Glasgow Caledonian University