The Impact of Social Structure, Discrimination and Violence on the German Muslim Community

社会结构、歧视和暴力对德国穆斯林社区的影响

• 批准号: 465340720
• 负责人: Professorin Dr. Sigrid Roßteutscher
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Lehrstuhl Political Economy
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Units
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/465340720?language=en
• 关键词: Impact; Social; Structure; Discrimination; Violence

The religiosity and religious identity of Western European Muslims has received increasing attention in academic research and public discourse. Yet, despite extensive research over the past decade, Muslims’ strong preservation of religious traditions remains an unsolved pattern in Western European immigration societies. A dominant explanation of religious identity is the discrimination or exclusion of Muslim immigrants by the majority population. However, beyond the often individually experienced discrimination in everyday situations, Muslim individuals are subject to a more severe and increasingly visible form of xenophobia: violence and acts of terror, which explicitly target Muslims indiscriminately. Moreover, radical Islamic terror organizations try to fuel this vicious cycle. Caught between a faction of radicalized Muslims as well as hostile, islamophobic elements of the majority population, secular segments of the Muslim population are in an awkward position, where they feel resentment and pressure from different sides.Surprisingly, however, we have very little empirical research on how this two-pronged threat of violence affects Muslims in Germany. The proposed research project addresses core questions within this research gap: How does religiously motivated violence alter religious identity? How does identity, discrimination and violence affect civic or political behavior? And how do these reactions vary with the social position which individuals occupy? After all, social mobility has fundamentally altered and diversified German society, including the largest Muslim-origin immigrant group, the Turkish guestworker communities. Today, many Muslim-origin immigrants of all generations hold a wide range of positions in politics, economy and society, with the result that religion cross-cuts many other dimensions which are potentially relevant to individuals’ social identity.We build on the theoretical framework of the overarching RISS research and expand it by illuminating how exogenous events, such as Islamist and anti-Muslim violence, perturb the association between social structure, identity and behavior. The proposed project examines these questions using an original survey of German Muslims, which we will collect as part of the RISS Internalization Survey. We rely on innovative measurement strategy using a conjoint experiment to estimate the importance of religion within individuals’ multidimensional social identity. Furthermore, our proposed empirical analysis uses an experimental design to evaluate how social identity as well as political preferences and behavior are linked to perceptions of violence and discrimination.

西欧穆斯林的宗教虔诚度和宗教身份在学术研究和公共话语中受到越来越多的关注。然而，尽管在过去十年中进行了广泛的研究，穆斯林对宗教传统的强烈保护仍然是西欧移民社会的一个未解决的模式。对宗教身份的一个主要解释是多数人口歧视或排斥穆斯林移民。然而，除了个人在日常生活中经常经历的歧视之外，穆斯林个人还受到一种更严重和越来越明显的仇外心理：暴力和恐怖行为，这些行为明确地不分青红皂白地针对穆斯林。此外，激进的伊斯兰恐怖组织试图助长这一恶性循环。穆斯林人口中的世俗部分夹在激进穆斯林和多数人口中敌对的伊斯兰恐惧分子之间，处于尴尬的境地，他们感受到来自不同方面的怨恨和压力。然而，令人惊讶的是，我们几乎没有实证研究这种双管齐下的暴力威胁如何影响德国的穆斯林。拟议的研究项目解决了这一研究空白中的核心问题：宗教动机的暴力如何改变宗教身份？身份、歧视和暴力如何影响公民或政治行为？这些反应又是如何随着个人所处的社会地位而变化的呢？毕竟，社会流动性从根本上改变了德国社会，使之多样化，包括最大的穆斯林移民群体土耳其客工社区。今天，所有世代的许多穆斯林移民在政治，经济和社会中担任广泛的职位，结果是宗教横切许多其他方面，这些方面可能与个人的社会身份有关。我们建立在总体RISS研究的理论框架上，并通过阐明外部事件，如伊斯兰和反穆斯林暴力，扰乱社会结构、身份和行为之间的联系。拟议的项目使用对德国穆斯林的原始调查来研究这些问题，我们将收集这些调查作为RISS内部化调查的一部分。我们依靠创新的测量策略，使用联合实验来估计宗教在个人多维社会身份中的重要性。此外，我们提出的实证分析使用的实验设计，以评估社会身份以及政治偏好和行为是如何与暴力和歧视的看法。