Concern for women’s honor serves as state rhetoric controlling gendered labor migration

Evidence

All three texts discussed in this article profitably exploit resistance to the very real inroads made by political Islam and the undeniable abrogation of women’s rights in Muslim countries and communities. What they offer is a simple way to understand an undeniable scourge, an analysis that easily harnesses real concern with the status of women to racist images of barbaric Muslims. In doing so, these texts draw on a feminist narrative that has come to dominate feminist studies: the story of equality as requiring a journey from pre-modernity to modernity, and from the non-West to the West, the latter understood as a place of universal values. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 241 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Media reports of abuse control gendered labor migration — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 500; Feminists frame state reluctance to intervene as multiculturalism trumping women’s rights — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 246; Colonial tax policy engineered gender-specific labor migration and family rupture. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1662 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Western feminist narratives can hijack genuine women’s-rights concerns for racist ends #complicates (0.74) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 241