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Dahinden, Janine
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Dahinden, Janine
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- PublicationAccès libreBecoming a citizen through marriage: how gender, ethnicity and class shape the nation(2020-1-14)
; The role of marriage in accessing membership entitlements has been studied extensively in the context of marriage migration, but it remains under-researched in the literature on citizenship acquisition. This paper explores specific constructions of deservingness vis-à-vis the foreign spouses of citizens and their marriages in the context of facilitated naturalization in Switzerland. Based on an ethnographic investigation of the naturalization practices of street-level bureaucrats, we show that the politics of belonging in the context of access to citizenship is regulated by intersecting gendered, ethnicized and classed logics of desirability about how a marriage should be. Additionally, a patrilineal logic continues to guide street-level bureaucrats de facto even when legislation has introduced de jure gender equality. Finally, we demonstrate that it is not only immigration regimes, but also citizenship regimes that employ assumptions about what constitutes a ‘good marriage’ in order to draw the boundaries of the nation. - PublicationAccès libreGender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today(2017)
; The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Drawing on theories of boundary work, we show that gendered representations of migrants are mobilised by different actors to advance their claims and calls for certain forms of immigration control and migrant integration. Since the late 19th century, gendered representations of Swiss nationals and migrant others shift from classical gender ideas to culturalised post-colonial interpretations of gender roles and, most recently, to normative ideas of gender equality. As part of these changes, migrant women moved from the periphery to the core of public and political attention. Concomitantly, categories of difference shift from the intersection of gender and social class to an intersection of gender, culture and ethnicity. Local particularities of Switzerland – the idea of ‘overforeignisation’ and the system of direct democracy – play a significant role in shaping categories. But Switzerland’s embeddedness in transnational fields emerges as equally important. The article expands on recent research and illuminates how changing dynamics of categorisation and othering facilitate the construction of nations and national identities in a transnationalised world. - PublicationAccès libreChanging Gender Representations in Politics of Belonging: A Critical Analysis of Developments in Switzerland(2016)
; The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a historical case study of Switzerland this paper examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Drawing on theories of boundary work we show that gendered representations of migrants are mobilised by different actors to advance their claims and calls for certain forms of immigration control and migrant integration. Since the late 19th century gendered representations of Swiss nationals and migrant others shift from classical gender ideas to culturalized post-colonial interpretations of gender roles and, most recently, to normative ideas of gender equality. As part of these changes, migrant women moved from the periphery to the core of public and political attention. Concomitantly, categories of difference shift from the intersection of gender and social class to an intersection of gender, culture and ethnicity. Local particularities of Switzerland – the idea of ‘over-foreignization’ and the system of direct democracy – play a significant role in shaping categories. But Switzerland’s embeddedness in transnational fields emerges as equally important. The paper expands on recent research and illuminates how changing dynamics of categorisation and othering facilitate the construction of nations and national identities in a transnationalized world. - PublicationAccès libreDisentangling Religious, Ethnic and Gendered Contents in Boundary Work: How Young Adults Create the Figure of ‘The Oppressed Muslim Woman’(2014)
; - PublicationAccès libreIslam and gender in the boundary work of young adults in Switzerland(2012)
; - PublicationAccès libreKultur als Form symbolischer Gewalt Grenzziehungsprogresse im Kontext von Migration am Beispiel der Schweiz(2011)Die Schweiz gilt international als Modell eines gelungenen Multikulturalismus, dann nämlich wenn es das Zusammenleben der vier Sprachgruppen (Romands, DeutschschweizerInnen, TessinerInnen, RäteromanInnen) betrifft. Ein sprachlicher wie auch religiöser Pluralismus ist und war stets ein Grundbaustein des Selbstverständnisses der „Willensnation“ Schweiz. Geht es aber um MigrantInnen präsentiert sich die Geschichte anders, denn in diesem Falle erscheinen religiöse und ethnisch-kulturelle Pluralität vorwiegend als problematisch. MigrantInnen gehören nicht zum multikulturellen Staat, vielmehr sind Prozesse kollektiver Grenzziehungen und damit Schliessungsmechanismen zu beobachten, in denen Ethnizität, Religion und Kultur zu den wichtigsten Differenzierungsmerkmale werden, wie Gemeinsamkeiten gegen Innen (SchweizerInnen) und Barrieren gegen aussen (Ausländer, Migranten, Muslims, etc.) hergestellt werden. Ich argumentiere in diesem Artikel, dass sich dieser „Kulturdiskurs“ im letzten Jahrzehnt verstärkt hat und gleichzeitig semantischen Verschiebungen unterworfen war. Mittels der Grenzziehungsperspektive wird historisch nachgezogen, wie Zuwanderung und Integration in politischen Debatten und Gesetz zunehmend kulturalisiert und ethnisiert wurden. Ein Fallbeispiel aus der Forschung dient mir anschliessend zur Illustration dieses „neuen“ Essentialismus. In einer Mikroperspektive zeige ich wie Jugendliche im Kontext dieser neuen semantischen Einfärbung des „Kulturarguments“ Grenz- und Differenzlinien erstellen. Die öffentlich-politischen institutionalisierten Grenzziehungen werden von den Jugendlichen weitgehend übernommen, und die von Ausschluss Betroffenen haben keine Chance, gegen diese etablierten Differenzlinien anzukommen, sondern sie entwickeln Strategien, die paradoxerweise die etablierten Grenzziehungen und das „Kulturargument“ zusätzlich verstärken. Der öffentlich-essentialistische „Kulturdiskurs“ ist deshalb als Form von symbolischer Gewalt im Sinne von Bourdieu und Passeron (1970) zu verstehen. Das „Kulturargument“ und damit verbundene Grenzziehungsprozesse sind konkrete Manifestationen eines grundlegenden gesellschaftlichen Herrschaftsprozesses und monopolisieren nationale Legitimität.