The prohibition of the full-face veil in Belgium: between collective hysteria and symbolic policy
This article analyses the debate on the prohibition of the full-face veil in Belgium, which was finalised in a law approved in March 2010 by the Belgian Chamber of Representatives after a discussion process in the public sphere and Parliament. First, the context of growing opposition to the visibility of Islam in the public space out which a demand for a federal law prohibiting the full-face veil emerged is presented; then, the gradual process of the law's adoption is reviewed; and, finally, the discourse and arguments used in the debate by the law’s defenders and detractors are analysed. In t... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, Iss 115, Pp 81-94 (2017) |
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Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB)
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Schlagwörter: | full-face veil / Belgium / prohibition / Islam / symbolic policy / Political science / J |
Sprache: | Spanish |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26612614 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.24241/rcai.2017.115.1.81 |