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

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen; Riem Spielhaus

doi:10.1163/221179512x644060

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

Birgitte Schepelern Johansen, Riem Spielhaus

Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier

25 Citationer (Scopus)

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.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Tidsskrift	Journal of Muslims in Europe
Vol/bind	Vol 1
Udgave nummer	1
Sider (fra-til)	81-112
Antal sider	32
ISSN	2211-792X
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1163/221179512x644060
Status	Udgivet - 2012

Emneord

Det Humanistiske Fakultet
Deviance
statistics
Muslims
Islam
secularity

FN’s Verdensmål

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10.1163/221179512x644060

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/221179512x644060

1 Organisation af og deltagelse i konference
1 Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag

Mapping a decade's production of surveys among Muslims in Europe
Johansen, B. S. (Oplægsholder)
3 nov. 2011
Aktivitet: Tale eller præsentation - typer › Foredrag og mundtlige bidrag
Quantifying the Muslims
Johansen, B. S. (Arrangør)
2 nov. 2011 → 4 nov. 2011
Aktivitet: Deltagelse i eller arrangement af en begivenhed - typer › Organisation af og deltagelse i konference

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

Abstract

Emneord

FN’s Verdensmål

Adgang til dokumentet

Fingeraftryk

Aktiviteter

Mapping a decade's production of surveys among Muslims in Europe

Quantifying the Muslims

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