1243 | 510 | Racist assaults and the self-silencing discourse among immigrants; the impact of social inequalities on Muslim women students

Gender as a category intersect with other categories of social identity, such as sexuality, ethnicity, social position and geography. In this research I mainly draw on the discourse-historical approach (DHA) (Reisigl and Wodak, 2016) of Critical Discourse Studies (CDS) to integrate the available cultural and social background information of our rapidly changing societies to investigate how the marginalisation of women is accomplished through text, talk and social practices. In this study, I interviewed ten young Muslim women students across the UK who are immigrated from the Middle East and North Africa. This study aims to examine how Muslim women students experience Islamophobic racism and respond to it by exploring how seven of these ten women migrants experience a range of aggressive forms of physical assault or an in-person confrontation while all of them experienced discrimination and marginalization. This detailed analysis distinguishes an ongoing thematic tension between two issues of religion and identity which concerns the socio-cultural and emotional experiences highlighted by these women who have marginal voices in expressing their cultural experiences in their new host society, the UK. Given that in present times the increasingly complex issues of gender, power and ideology have become sustain through language use, it is necessary for discursive work to continue to amplify the work (being) done by social movements to challenge unequal social discourses, demolish oppressive gendered arrangements and reconstruct emancipatory resistance in various contexts._x000D_
Reisigl, M., & Wodak, R. (2016). The discourse-historical approach (DHA). In R. Wodak & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis (3rd ed.) (pp.23–62). London: Sage._x000D_

Dr Soudeh Ghaffari
Newcastle University

ID Abstract: 510

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