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Danish Institute for International Studies
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  • Funder: French National Research Agency (ANR) Project Code: ANR-19-MRS3-0015
    Funder Contribution: 29,999.2 EUR

    The WE-GEMINA project is twofold and to be developed at different scales: a macro-transnational scale and a micro-local scale. The first part of the project is focused on the transnational narratives circulating on the social networks. Crossing sexism and xenophobia, they increase the gender inequalities and the discrimination based on real or supposed ethnic origin. A second and complementary component intends to identify, through a multi-situated approach, counter-narratives which could contribute to renewing the debate on gender in migration. In the global context of the rise of populism, and especially since 2011 and the wave of migration related to the Syrian civil war, the most extreme and anti-migrant discourses put pressure on all European debates on migration. Stated by politicians, circulating on social networks or available on websites or blogs, populist narratives on gender and migration activate distressing representations as well as biased perceptions of reality, which threaten the cohesion of societies, diminish their resilience and increase risks of violence against migrant women. In globalized populist rhetoric, xenophobic and sexist narratives are intertwined, so that offensives against migrant women seem specific: according to national contexts, they are suspected of taking undue advantage of social protection systems through their multiple pregnancies, of threatening secularism, challenging a family model based on a supposed gender equality, of transgressing gender norms, fueling prostitution and clandestine labor, or - in the most conspiratorial theses- to be the matrix of a "great replacement". However, the unequal gender, class and race relationships largely invisibilize the structural violence and multiple discrimination faced by migrant women. In fact, the diffusion of such distorted representations increases their physical, sexual, social or professional vulnerability. In order to counter the influence of the xenophobic and sexist discourses against migrant women, the proposal aims firstly to deconstruct, based on different national contexts, the rhetorical and technological forces of their effectiveness, secondly to identify alternative narratives that are likely to inflect them. It will not focus exclusively on female migrants outside the European Union, but on all women perceived as foreign and mobile people: European Roma women, Muslim or perceived Muslim migrants, racist sub-Saharan migrants, LBTQIA + migrants. Based on two major social networks providing narratives, Facebook and Twitter, and mobilizing specific software, the analysis of sexist and xenophobic narratives focus on their substance, but also on the tools and strategies of their dissemination. The question of the "past" will be investigated by the uses of a supposed past in populist narratives. Against the narratives grounded in an ethnocultural conception of the political community and seeking to create collective fear, the counter-narratives value the concrete experience of migration carried by mixed migrant and non-migrant communities. The identification of such counter-narratives should provide guidelines to enlighten different actors, including the press, associations and politicians, in resisting xenophobic themes and populist strategies. The project involves a consortium of research teams, complementary to each other and strongly sensitized to issues of gender and discrimination, from seven countries differently exposed to populist rhetoric.

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