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040			_aAFVC
082			_a361.25 KOR
100			_aKorteweg, Anna C. _95831
245			_aReligion, culture and the politicization of honour-related violence : _ba critical analysis of media and policy debates in Western Europe and North America _cAnna C. Korteweg and Gökçe Yurdakul
260			_aGeneva, Switzerland : _bUnited Nations Research Institute for Social Development, _c2010
300			_bvii, 47 pages ; 30 cm.
300			_aelectronic document (58 pages) ; PDF file: 507.31 KB
500			_aUNRISD Programme Papers on Gender and Development, 2010, no.12
520			_a"Over the past decade, the issue of honour-related violence (including honour killing and forced marriage) has entered media and policy debates in immigrant-receiving countries like the Netherlands, Germany, Britain and Canada. In some of these countries, media debate has instigated policy debate. For example, in Germany, the brutal 2005 murder of 23-year-old Hatun Aynur Sürücü by her brother sparked a political debate on family violence within Muslim immigrant communities, focusing not only on honour killing but also on forced marriage. In both the Netherlands and Britain, incidences of honour-related violence led to (immigrant) women’s NGO advocacy for prevention, protection as well as prosecution. Politicians’ receptiveness to these efforts was in part facilitated by media discussions of murders and other incidents, such as the murders in the Netherlands of Kezban Vural by her husband in 1999, high-school student Zarife by her father in 2003 and Mrs. Gül by her exhusband in 2004; and the murders in Britain of Rukhsana Naz by her mother and brother in 1998, 16-year-old Heshu Yones by her father in 2002 and 20-year-old Banaz Mahmod by her father and uncle in 2007. In Canada, by contrast, discussions of the murders of 17-year-old Amandeep Atwal in 2003 and 16-year-old Aqsa Parvez in 2007, both by their fathers, did not instigate policy debate. This paper analyses how media, parliaments and other state institutions, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) conceptualize honour killing and honour-related violence in order to uncover how such conceptualizations inform policy responses. The analysis reveals three main trends: i. discussions that link honour killing to Islam and/or the backwardness of immigrant communities in ways that lead to the stigmatization of entire immigrant communities; ii. culture-blind portrayals of honour-related violence as domestic violence or violence against women that do not pay attention to cultural specificities; and iii. debates that are contextually specific, framing honour-related violence as a contextually informed form of violence against women that occurs within particular immigrant communities but where this violence does not essentialize the culture and practices of those communities as a whole. The paper shows that these discursive conceptualizations inform different policy approaches to the issue. Korteweg and Yurdakul contend that discussions of honour-related violence that stigmatize are more likely to lead to general anti-immigrant policies or policies that impede settlement. Debates that frame honour-related violence as a variant of the generally widespread problem of domestic violence and violence against women are more likely to lead to policies that directly target these forms of violence". (From the Summary). Record #5012
650			_aASIAN PEOPLES _966
650			_aCULTURAL ISSUES _9177
650		0	_95810 _aFORCED MARRIAGE
650			_aHOMICIDE _9297
650			_aLAW REFORM _9338
650			_aMEDIA _9367
650			_aMIGRANTS _9385
650			_aPOLICY _9447
650		0	_aVIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN _93088
651			_aGERMANY _95137
651			_aTHE NETHERLANDS _95203
651		4	_aUNITED KINGDOM _92604
651		4	_aCANADA _92602
650			_9252 _aFAMILY VIOLENCE
700			_aYurdakul, Gökçe _95833
773	0	3	_tUNRISD Programme Papers on Gender and Development, 2010, no.12
830			_aUNRISD Programme Papers on Gender and Development _95834
856			_uhttp://www.unrisd.org/unrisd/website/document.nsf/%28httpPublications%29/E61F80827BF3409FC1257744004DC465?OpenDocument
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