Belonging, Assimilating or Radicalising: How are femininity, religion and citizenship negotiated by 3 generations of Muslim Women?

我的项目的重点已经被修改，以反映与伊斯兰教，激进化和性别问题有关的社会政治景观的变化，以及反映他们的方式，我自己的研究兴趣已经发展。在我最初的提议中，我打算把重点放在年轻的穆斯林男性在伯明翰“特洛伊木马”丑闻的背景下处理身份和归属感问题的方式上。然而，自从最初的项目构思以来，“特洛伊木马”丑闻的相关性已经下降，这使得我的序数研究的背景相当过时。因此，我将我的研究重新定位于英国公民身份和伊斯兰教的更广泛背景，因为我觉得将研究置于一个相关性下降的事件的背景下会有问题。特别是，数据收集必须具有追溯性，因此范围相当有限。此外，在加深了对当代文献的回顾之后，我觉得调查信仰和性别认同与激进化和公民身份过程的关系的研究仍然是必要的，但更好的是研究穆斯林妇女在这些动态中谈判的方式。事实上，许多现有的文献都探讨了激进化、归属感和男性气质之间的关系，但很少有文献研究女性是如何在这些框架下构成和自我构成的。此外，我发现，当穆斯林妇女成为研究的焦点时，就有一种使她们受害和客观化的倾向，因此很少有人询问她们的观点，也很少有人把她们作为研究对象。因此，我希望我的研究能够纠正现有的学术研究，解决穆斯林妇女被谈论但很少被谈论的问题。为此，我修改了研究问题：归属、同化或激进化：女性气质、宗教和公民身份是如何被三代穆斯林女性协商的？这项研究的目的是探索不同世代的穆斯林妇女如何理解她们与国家的关系，以及她们如何，或者实际上是否，将自己视为公民。因此，我的研究将涉及对3代穆斯林妇女的简要分析，其中我将涵盖归属，身份，激进化，包容，排斥，国家地位和信仰等主题。我会采取混合的方法，包括焦点小组和后续的面对面访谈。所有的参与者都是来自伯明翰的穆斯林女性。我打算开展4个焦点小组，一个是三代女性中的每一代，另一个是三代女性的混合。我将根据参与者的理解情况进行深度访谈。

The focus of my project has been amended to reflect both the changes to the socio-political landscape relating to issues of Islam, radicalisation and gender as well as to mirror they ways in which my own research interests have developed. In my original proposal I intended to focus on the ways in which young Muslim men navigated issues of identity and belonging in the context of the 'Trojan Horse' scandal in Birmingham. However, since the initial project's conception, the relevance of the 'Trojan Horse' scandal has declined, making the context of my ordinal study quite dated. As such, I reoriented my study towards the wider context of citizenship and Islam in the UK, as I felt it would be problematic to contextualise the research on an event that has since declined in relevance. In particular, data collection would have to be retrospective and therefore quite limited in scope. Moreover, having deepened my review of the contemporary literature, I felt that a study investigating faith and gender identity in relation to processes of radicalisation and citizenship remains necessary but that it would be better to hone in on the ways in which Muslim women negotiate these dynamics. Indeed, much of the existing literature has explored the relationship between radicalisation, belonging and masculinities but there are few that investigate how women are constituted and self-constitute within these frameworks. Moreover, I found that when Muslim women are the focus of research there is a tendency to victimise and objectify them and as such they are very rarely asked for their views and presented as subjects of research. As such, I would like my study to act as a corrective to the existing scholarship by addressing the issue of Muslim women being talked about but rarely talked with.To that end, my revised research question is: Belonging, Assimilating or Radicalising: How are femininity, religion and citizenship negotiated by 3 generations of Muslim Women? The study aims to explore how different generations of Muslim women understand their relationship with the State and how, or indeed whether, they constitute themselves as citizens. As such, my research will involve a snapshot analysis of 3 generations of Muslim Women, where I will cover themes such as belonging, identity, radicalisation, inclusion, exclusion, nationhood and faith. I will take a mixed methods approach, including focus groups and follow-up face to face interviews. All participants will be women who identify as Muslim and who are based in Birmingham. I intend to carry out 4 focus groups, one with each of the three generations of women and one with a mix of generation. I will follow up with depth interviews based on participant uptake.