Coercive concern : nationalism, liberalism, and the schooling of Muslim youth /

Jaffe-Walter, Reva,

Coercive concern : nationalism, liberalism, and the schooling of Muslim youth / Reva Jaffe-Walter. - 1 online resource (229 pages) : illustrations. - Anthropology of policy . - Anthropology of policy (Stanford, Calif.) .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : ethnographic journeys through concern -- Imagining the Danish nation in relation to Muslim "others" -- Integration and immigration : creating ideal liberal subjects -- Liberalizing Muslim girls -- Negotiating relationships to hostlands and homelands -- Somali by nature, Muslim by choice, Danish by paper : narrating identities -- Teachers' counter-narratives and comparative sites of possibility -- Conclusion : interrogating liberal blind spots and silences.

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Muslim youth--Education--Denmark.
Immigrant youth--Education--Denmark.
Children of immigrants--Education--Denmark.
Muslims--Cultural assimilation--Denmark.
Nationalism--Denmark.
Liberalism--Denmark.


Electronic books.

LC3736.D4 / J34 2016

371.829088/29709489