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Niqab : ett etniskt och legislativt dilemma

Lindqvist, Jennie LU (2010) MRSG20 20092
Centre for Theology and Religious Studies
Human Rights Studies
Abstract
A current issue in Sweden today is whether muslim women shall have the right to bear the niqāb in the public context. A case in Sweden is a woman who is forbidden to wear her niqāb in her education to be a child caretaker. The purpose of this report is to examine whether it is permissible to tolerate a woman’s niqab in an adult education? To emphasize, there has been a review of relevant laws, examination of academics ' theories, who has dealt with the three areas, discrimination, feminist and religious. It was concluded in the analyse that there was no clear answers if it is right to ban niqab in an adult education. But it is important not to make general assessments when you are working with this kind of questions, without a thorough... (More)
A current issue in Sweden today is whether muslim women shall have the right to bear the niqāb in the public context. A case in Sweden is a woman who is forbidden to wear her niqāb in her education to be a child caretaker. The purpose of this report is to examine whether it is permissible to tolerate a woman’s niqab in an adult education? To emphasize, there has been a review of relevant laws, examination of academics ' theories, who has dealt with the three areas, discrimination, feminist and religious. It was concluded in the analyse that there was no clear answers if it is right to ban niqab in an adult education. But it is important not to make general assessments when you are working with this kind of questions, without a thorough examination on a case-by-case basis. (Less)
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author
Lindqvist, Jennie LU
supervisor
organization
course
MRSG20 20092
year
type
L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
subject
keywords
legislation, religious of freedom, women, veil, huvudduk, headscarves, niqab, discriminate
language
Swedish
id
1525167
date added to LUP
2010-03-04 16:19:57
date last changed
2014-09-04 08:27:48
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  abstract     = {{A current issue in Sweden today is whether muslim women shall have the right to bear the niqāb in the public context. A case in Sweden is a woman who is forbidden to wear her niqāb in her education to be a child caretaker. The purpose of this report is to examine whether it is permissible to tolerate a woman’s niqab in an adult education? To emphasize, there has been a review of relevant laws, examination of academics ' theories, who has dealt with the three areas, discrimination, feminist and religious. It was concluded in the analyse that there was no clear answers if it is right to ban niqab in an adult education. But it is important not to make general assessments when you are working with this kind of questions, without a thorough examination on a case-by-case basis.}},
  author       = {{Lindqvist, Jennie}},
  language     = {{swe}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Niqab : ett etniskt och legislativt dilemma}},
  year         = {{2010}},
}