Counting Deviance: Revisiting a decade's production of surveys in Western Europe

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Abstract

This article looks at the emergence of Muslims as a category of knowledge in surveys and opinion polls that have been conducted as a reaction to the rising demand for data about Muslim populations in Western Europe within the last ten years. The most prevalent feature of the conceptualization of Muslims is that they are inherently immigrants, or of immigrant descent, who are living within a certain nation state. This creates a continuous statistical invisibility of certain Muslims, for instance those without immigration backgrounds, as well as Muslims with national backgrounds other than Muslim majority countries. Further, this identification of the Muslim as immigrant, even if unintended, contributes to upholding a subtle exclusion of Muslims from the national community as always foreign and always potentially in need of integration.

OriginalsprogEngelsk
TidsskriftJournal of Muslims in Europe
Vol/bindVol 1
Udgave nummer1
Sider (fra-til)81-112
Antal sider32
ISSN2211-792X
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2012

Emneord

  • Det Humanistiske Fakultet
  • Deviance
  • statistics
  • Muslims
  • Islam
  • secularity

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