Historicizes current European debates about the sexual politics of immigrants from Muslim-majority regions
Explores the centrality of sexual politics to European debates about immigration and integration

Challenges dominant theories linking immigration to sexual conservatism and misogynistic behaviour

Historicizes current European debates about the sexual politics of immigrants from Muslim-majority regions Explores the centrality of sexual politics to European debates about immigration and integration Challenges dominant theories linking immigration to sexual conservatism and misogynistic behaviour

Autorentext
Andrew DJ Shield is Fellow and Lecturer at Roskilde University, Denmark, where he focuses on the intersections of immigration, race, gender, sexuality, and media in Europe. He lives and bikes in Copenhagen.

Klappentext

'Shield's timely and hugely important work takes fresh perspectives on immigration to

Northwest Europe from Turkey, Morocco and Pakistan in particular. Rather than seeing

a homogenised threat or groups of passive victims, he shows how immigrants have

responded to changing cultures of gender and sexuality in multiple ways. The book does

something genuinely new and comes as a nuanced and carefully argued counter to the

poisonous rhetoric of right-wing nationalists in Europe and beyond.'

• Matt Cook, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

'This is a remarkable book. With a multitude of sources, Andrew DJ Shield welds together

the history of late twentieth-century immigration to Denmark and the Netherlands and

presents it from the immigrants' viewpoint. An astute scholarly work, which effectively

refutes some of the most common xenophobic and populist claims of our time, the book

has relevance for how we understand cross-cultural experiences everywhere.'

• Jens Rydström, Lund University, Sweden

'We tend to forget how solidarity and social cohesion were constructed in past decades. This is a must-read for journalists, policy makers and academics.'

• Marlou Schrover, Leiden University, The Netherlands

  Inhalt
  Chapter 1. Introduction: The disaster of Islamization where gays are not safe to walk the streets, women are seen as inferior: Pro-Gay, Anti-Immigrant Politics and the Right, 2000-2017.- Chapter 2. There were no colored people in the classrooms: The Disavowal of Heterogeneity.- PART I: PERCEPTIONS.- Chapter 3. Like the Great Pyramids of Egypt you can't talk about Denmark without talking about The Danish Woman: Immigrant Perceptions of European Gender and Sexual Cultures.- Chapter 4. [I]t does not have to be because they want to get married and have children: Teaching Danish Sexuality and Gender Norms to Foreign Workers, 1972.- PART II: SOLIDARITY.- Chapter 5. "They're fighting for women's rights, we're fighting for equal rights for Turkish people, and that's the only difference: Foreign Workers Organize in the Footsteps of the Women's Movement, The Netherlands, 1974-1980.- Chapter 6. All of that talk about feminism was very hard to understand: Immigrant Women and EuropeanFeminism, 1974-1985.- PART III: PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 7. Help me, an Indonesian boy living in Holland flee my parents: Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in European Gay/Lesbian Contact Ads, 1960s-1980s.- Chapter 8. I was one of the first colored gays: Experiences of Immigrants and Ethnic Minorities in European Gay/Lesbian Scenes, 1960s-1980s.- Chapter 9. Epilogue: It was a cultural evolution: Rethinking Immigrant Sexual Politics since the 1980s.- Bibliography.- Index.