I am mine: a history of hijab and miniskirt

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Hijab: veils and citizenship, Islam, Migration, Racism, see, I am mine: Hijab y minifalda, I am mine: Hijab y minifalda

another-fashionThe newspapers have this week two girls have been punished in Spain by their dress. One of them has been evicted from a procession in Granada for wearing a miniskirt that older brothers considered too short. Perhaps the argument seems outdated as soon, characteristic of people living in a world where virginity is still paid and to protect youth from the temptations of the flesh.

The second has been expelled from a test at his school for wearing hijab.

Migration challenges: the British and the burka

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Migration, Migration challenges: the British and the burka, see

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(c) The Guardian - Alamy

In response to recent posts Immigration, my friendEduardo Retamero sent us this delightful: a Guardian article that makes clear that the British community resident in Spain has no intention of joining.

To move forward we should agree on the term “integration”. The previous post is illustrated with a cartoon of The Broken representing two immigrants dancing the jota. No need to get to that end: or maybe learn the local languages ​​and what could be considered a good indication “integration”.

Hijab, headscarf and citizenship

Written by Brigitte Vasallo. Posted in Islam, Migration, see

(c) Sofia Servando Baig

When we talk about not talking about immigration veil: Essentially we are talking about.

In a speech in perpetual construction Us, a hijab should not be any more strange or more threatening than a dress fallera.

Some time ago I was invited to a conference on multiculturalism and gender organized at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Barcelona Gredidona.

It was, in my case, speaking of hijab (Muslim veil).

The theme of veil appears repeatedly in our conversations, in our news, in our political debate. And we just solved it wrong we put debate.

We talked about the veil and Immigration. The veil as a foreign element that has just arrived “our” country (if there is one country, I would say Jaume Sisa). One element that must decide if we incorporate into our world, in the.

If the debate is this, what to enter “our” country, defining what we are is who we are opposed.