UK integration strategy shifted from abstract policy language to mundane everyday practices
Evidence
There was then a certain banality to this integration strategy. The reference to recognizable things in everyday life – lunches, bible prayers in school and council assemblies – represented a sidestep from lofty policy language such as ‘sleepwalking to segregation’ and ‘parallel lives’. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 448
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: does the ‘banal’ Big Society/neighborhood-scheme turn in integration policy constitute a genuinely different mechanism of Islamophobia, or just a cosmetic repackaging?
- XREF: connects to: UK integration policy shifted to banal everyday measures rather than lofty language — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 453; UK integration discourse shifted from organic integration toward a muscular clash-of-values stance — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 452
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- UK integration discourse shifted from organic integration toward a muscular clash-of-values stance (similarity 0.80)
- UK integration policy redefined Muslim integration as an antidote to extremism (similarity 0.79)
- Integration discourse is both descriptive process and prescriptive ideal (similarity 0.79)
- British integration policy elites recycled assimilationist rhetoric against Muslims decades after it failed (similarity 0.78)
- Official UK integration strategy framed Muslims as a threat to national cohesion (similarity 0.78)