La lutte pour la reconnaissance des Québécoises de 2e génération portant le voile
This Masters aims to understand the life experience of young Québécoises from second generation of Muslims immigrants wearing Islamic headscarves, and who experienced the debate over the political project la charte des valeurs in 2012. One of the articles of this charte aimed to forbid employees of the public sector to wear ‘ostentatious’ religious signs. The province of Quebec has witnessed a wave of protests and many rallies of members of religious minorities who felt targeted by this bill. I have noticed the emergence of the second generation of these religious minorities who displayed their religious signs in the public space and protested against La Charte. To understand this phenomenon I used the concept of struggle for recognition theorized by Honneth and the concept of stigma elaborated by Goffman and later by Göle. I tried to comprehend the struggle for recognition of the young Quebeckers wearing the veil as a stigmatized religious sign. The concept of hybridity allowed me to consider the multiplicity of identifications of these young women and how it could be articulated through their struggle for recognition. I conducted 13 semi structured interviews with young Muslim women between 19 and 27 years old, born in Quebec and wearing the Islamic headscarf.
struggle for recognition stigma identity visibility hybridity