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Girl, Interrupted: Citizenship and the Irish Hijab Debate

Enright, Máiréad (2011) Girl, Interrupted: Citizenship and the Irish Hijab Debate. Social and Legal Studies, 20 (4). pp. 463-480. ISSN 0964-6639. (doi:10.1177/0964663911417278) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:29471)

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Abstract

This article discusses the case of Shekinah Egan, an Irish Muslim girl who asked to be allowed to wear the hijab to school. It traces the media and government response to her demand, and frames that demand as a citizenship claim. It focuses in particular on a peculiarity of the Irish response; that the government was disinclined to legislate for the headscarf in the classroom. It argues that – perhaps counter-intuitively – the refusal to make law around the hijab operated to silence the citizenship claims at the heart of the Egan case. To this extent, it was a very particular instance of a broader and ongoing pattern of exclusion of the children of migrants from the Irish public sphere.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1177/0964663911417278
Subjects: K Law
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > Kent Law School
Depositing User: Mairead Enright
Date Deposited: 16 May 2012 08:54 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:07 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/29471 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Enright, Máiréad.

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