God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion
| Autor: | Christine M. Jacobsen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Cultural Studies
060101 anthropology media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Sociology of religion Religious studies Pity Gender studies Islam 06 humanities and the arts Piety Public space Politics Precarity 050903 gender studies Political science 0601 history and archaeology 0509 other social sciences Duty media_common |
| Zdroj: | Contemporary Islam |
| Popis: | In recent years, Muslims have become more visibly invested in humanitarian work in France. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Marseille, this article examines local initiatives to care for precarious others whose lives are neither materially supported nor socially recognized within the current French political regime. Engaging with critical French scholarship on humanitarianism as care for others associated with emergency, suffering and the politics of compassion, I show how food-distribution (maraudes) by Muslim-run humanitarian associations also draw from Islamic ethics of care. While social dynamics related to gender, class, race and generation structure the maraudes, the foregrounding of shared precarity, and of religious duty and piety over pity, challenges the ‘hierarchies of deservingness’ established by humanitarian border regimes. In caring for precarious others, Muslims must navigate both the secular suspicion directed towards Islam and the securitization of migration. Carrying out the religious duty of helping those in need, they are ‘laying claim to public space’ for both Muslims and precarious migrants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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