Public Denunciation of Heteropatriarchal Oppressions in Contexts of Racism and Immigration and Their Management by Social Movements: An Intersectional Challenge
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https://doi.org/10.14422/mig.21981.015Keywords:
gender, anti-racism, intersectionality, religion, social movementsAbstract
In recent years, in Catalonia, several women who are daughters of families Arab countries and Muslim tradition have denounced, mainly through social media, a hetero-patriarchal repression that affects many aspects of their lives. According to these women, this repression is justified by principles attributed to Islam and is exercised by their families and social environment. They also denounce the lack of response to their complaints and the limited support received from social movements. This article aims to incorporate this issue into the academic and social agenda. To this end, we interviewed eight women linked in varying degrees to the collective La Voz de la Infiel which has led efforts to denounce these forms of oppression, or who align themselves with their demands. We reviewed interviews with members of the collective, and we contextualised the activists’ narratives within a theoretical framework. Finally, we examined the difficulties social movements face when trying to address these complex situations.
In this article, we analyse the discourses of these women, which highlight the tension between addressing racism and patriarchy in contexts of immigration and in which religion plays an important role. On the other hand, we try to understand the difficulties of social movements in response to these complex situations, characterised by the confluence of different logics.
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