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Narrating a Safer Place: Female Empowerment Professionalisation at the Intersection of Race/Gender

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Beratung in symbolischen Ordnungen

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Sepideh Abedi Farizani, Susanne Maria Weber und Sarah Wieners beschäftigen sich in ihrem Beitrag mit der Integration geflüchteter, muslimischer Migrantinnen in den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt. Ausgangspunkt ihrer Überlegungen ist die symbolische Ordnung der ‚Sicherheitsdispositive‘. In dieser diskursmethodologisch angelegten Perspektive wird das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Dispositiven der ‚Sicherheit‘ und Diskursen um Geborgenheit deutlich. An der Schnittstelle der Diskurslinien von ‚Geschlecht‘ und ‚Ethnizität‘ bringt der Diskurs systematisch unsichere und prekäre Subjektpositionen für Migrantinnen hervor. Während die Forschungsliteratur die Unsichtbarkeit, die Individualisierung von Migrantinnen oder ihre Einbettung in paternalistische Unterstützungsdiskurse diskutiert, schlagen die Autorinnen ausgehend von feministischen Debatten um ‚Care‘ und ‚Belonging‘ den Peer-Beratungs-Ansatz einer ‚Empowerment Professionalisation‘ vor. Dieser Ansatz wird als Intervention in den Diskurs verstanden.

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    By identity, we do not mean the identity of a self-sustaining, autonomous individual. Instead, we refer to a poststructuralist concept of identity, as proposed by Hall, for example. Hall, referring to Foucault’s critique of the autonomous subject, suggests that identity should not be seen as a psychological concept, but that subjectivation should be seen as a discursive practice of “identification” (Hall, 2000, p. 16).

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    Under the neoliberalism perspective all human activity and movement should be included into the domain of the market (Harvey, 2007). This is problematic especially with the topic of migrations. From a state theoretical perspective, Sharma (2008, p. xxii) argues, “neoliberal policies aim to deflect poor people’s gazes and demands away from the state and toward themselves, their communities, and other civil society bodies [so that] the use of administrative or governance techniques such as empowerment paradoxically ends up producing a critical practice directed at state agencies.” Sharma (2008, p. xxiii) therefore argues for a political citizenship that is centered on “demanding resources-as-rights from government bodies”.

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    Governementality studies have pointed out that especially resource orientation and empowerment are in particular being transformed by neoliberal discourses. This is particularly evident in the wording. Although Blackmore also uses a specific vocabulary that can also be understood as neoliberal, Blackmore’s article highlights an important dimension of feminist thought, namely solidarity and structural change. This is in contrast to the neoliberal paradigm, which thinks in terms of individual ability and failure rather than structural inequalities.

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Abedi Farizani, S., Weber, S.M., Wieners, S. (2022). Narrating a Safer Place: Female Empowerment Professionalisation at the Intersection of Race/Gender. In: Elven, J., Weber, S.M. (eds) Beratung in symbolischen Ordnungen. Organisation und Pädagogik, vol 21. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-13090-9_11

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