Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom: Intersectionality and the Politics of Policy
Struggles for Institutional Space in France and the United Kingdom: Intersectionality and the Politics of Policy
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DOI：
10.1017/s1743923x10000358
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发表时间：
2010-12-01
影响因子：
3.4
通讯作者：
Emejulu, Akwugo
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作者：
Bassel, Leah;Emejulu, Akwugo
本文使用交叉性作为一种分析工具，探讨在两个表面上截然不同的背景下，在政策过程中为机构空间而进行的斗争：“共和”的法国和“多元文化”的联合王国。具体地说，文章对三个政策过程进行了案例分析。在法国，我们讨论了关于世俗主义的辩论，随后制定了2004年3月禁止在公立学校佩戴宗教标志的法律，以及成立了反歧视高级管理局(Halde)。在英国，我们研究了由2008年单一平等法案构建的问题定义、语言和主体立场。这些分析的结果是，机构行为者对交叉口采取了类似(尽管不完全相同)的做法，对英吉利海峡两岸的少数群体产生了类似的结果。通过我们所说的“分离逻辑”，制度行为者严重限制了少数族裔群体提出复杂和交叉的社会正义主张的“制度空间”。尽管在公民身份的构建方面，法国和英国经常被描绘成对立的两国，但我们认为，这些看似不同的公民身份传统最终会产生类似的效果，误解少数族裔女性和男性的经历和要求。
This article uses intersectionality as an analytical tool to explore struggles for institutional space in policy processes in two ostensibly contrasting contexts: "republican" France and the "multicultural" United Kingdom. Specifically, the article undertakes within-case analysis of three policy processes. In France, we discuss the debate over laicite', or secularism, the subsequent formulation of the March 2004 law banning the wearing of religious signs in state schools, and the creation of the High Authority for the Fight Against Discrimination (HALDE). In the UK, we examine the problem definitions, language, and subject positions constructed by the 2008 Single Equality Bill. The result of these analyses is that institutional actors employ similar (though not identical) practices in relation to intersections, which have similar outcomes for minority groups on either side of the English Channel. Through what we term a "logic of separation," institutional actors severely curtail the "institutional space" available to minority ethnic groups to make complex and intersectional social justice claims. Even though France and the UK are often portrayed as opposites with regard to constructions of citizenship, we argue that these seemingly differing traditions of citizenship end up having a similar effect of misrecognizing minority women and men's experiences and demands.