French society drastically changed in April 2011 with the implementation of âLaw of the Uncovered Face.â This law prohibits any article of clothing, religious or no, from covering the face, excluding safety and sporting equipment. The Muslim population of France is the religious group most affected, spurring many discussions about underlying motives for passing this legislation. Most of the Muslims in France today emigrated from former colonies of the French empire. This particular research looks at this relationship in a modern context, and examines what remaining colonial ties could exist within French society by comparing it with past legislation, legislative behaviors in France, what gendered implications exist and the colonial relation...
The 2016 burkini controversy and the criminalization of visibly Muslim women in France is a violent ...
In autumn 2010 France enacted a legal ban on concealment of the face in public. The veiling of Musli...
In November 1989, l’affaire du foulard or the Headscarf Affair exploded into the public scene in Fra...
On March 15, 2004, the lives of veiled Muslim women in France changed. A new law banned the Islamic...
In 2011, France was the first European country to enforce the Concealment Act which statesthat any t...
France is home to the largest Muslim population in Europe, comprising six percent of the French popu...
The burqa/niqab ban, which was enforced this month by the French government, is worn by fewer than 2...
On 23 June 2019, seven Muslim women staged a protest at a swimming pool in Grenoble, France in defia...
The historical relationship between the French state and its form of secularism, laïcité, and the Fr...
After the gruesome terrorist attack that killed eighty-four people in Nice, many beach towns in Fran...
In the spring of 2011, France enacted a law banning the concealment of the face in public spaces (th...
The controversy over French attempt to make it illegal for women to wear burqas in public places ref...
The decision to ban the ‘burkini’ – a form of beachwear favoured by Muslim women today – in parts of...
The French Revolution began as the quest for democracy and power shifts within the government, but i...
In France, secularism is celebrated in the public sphere. The paper makes general arguments about Fr...
The 2016 burkini controversy and the criminalization of visibly Muslim women in France is a violent ...
In autumn 2010 France enacted a legal ban on concealment of the face in public. The veiling of Musli...
In November 1989, l’affaire du foulard or the Headscarf Affair exploded into the public scene in Fra...
On March 15, 2004, the lives of veiled Muslim women in France changed. A new law banned the Islamic...
In 2011, France was the first European country to enforce the Concealment Act which statesthat any t...
France is home to the largest Muslim population in Europe, comprising six percent of the French popu...
The burqa/niqab ban, which was enforced this month by the French government, is worn by fewer than 2...
On 23 June 2019, seven Muslim women staged a protest at a swimming pool in Grenoble, France in defia...
The historical relationship between the French state and its form of secularism, laïcité, and the Fr...
After the gruesome terrorist attack that killed eighty-four people in Nice, many beach towns in Fran...
In the spring of 2011, France enacted a law banning the concealment of the face in public spaces (th...
The controversy over French attempt to make it illegal for women to wear burqas in public places ref...
The decision to ban the ‘burkini’ – a form of beachwear favoured by Muslim women today – in parts of...
The French Revolution began as the quest for democracy and power shifts within the government, but i...
In France, secularism is celebrated in the public sphere. The paper makes general arguments about Fr...
The 2016 burkini controversy and the criminalization of visibly Muslim women in France is a violent ...
In autumn 2010 France enacted a legal ban on concealment of the face in public. The veiling of Musli...
In November 1989, l’affaire du foulard or the Headscarf Affair exploded into the public scene in Fra...