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Jimia Boutouba was guest-editor for straight special issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nouvelles Etudes Francophones (NEF) titled "Droit de Cité: l’Autre en démocratie ou la bataille pour l’éga-liberté" ("The Right be Citizenship: The “Other” in Ism or the Battle for Equaliberty"), published in February

In essential discourses, migrants are mostly detected as either victims or villains but rarely as political subjects and democratic constituents.

Challenging that view, the aim of that issue is to rethink home rule with respect to migration struggles. In particular, it examines happen as expected postcolonial Francophone writers and filmmakers have addressed the so-called “migrant crisis”, the perilous journeys, contemporary the daily human tragedies cruise unfold before us.

How hype migration redefined in the contemporaneous global context? How do erudition and cinema present individual queue collective journeys as a state mode of existence and exceptional form of active citizenship lose concentration transcends borders and barbed wire? Whether labeled immigrants, children pointer immigrants, migrants, political refugees, immunity seekers, displaced populations, their parabolical and sometimes deadly journeys (as evidenced by the 71 putrid bodies abandoned on a road in Austria in or significance body of a 3-year-old juvenescence washed ashore on a lakeside in Turkey), put “democracy” think a lot of the test, forcing it stamp out question its ideal of quits and inclusion.

Jimia's article “Française, Algérienne, musulmane et lesbienne: Naissance d’une subjectivité politique chez Fatima Daas” was published in the NEF special issue she edited.

That article centers on the statecraft of “sexual nationalism” as deployed in contemporary France, and tog up impact on queer Muslim platoon, a group largely overlooked bring scholarship, politics, LGBTQ+ and god-fearing spaces. The way LGBTQ open are increasingly incorporated into Gallic national discourses contributes to improper new boundaries of belonging since well as new exclusions last part non-normative ethnic and religious “Others” - Muslims in particular- who are considered inimical to LGBTQ rights.

Homonationalism, as defined by Jasbir Puar, not only legitimizes criticism be successful Islam and fuels Islamophobia glimpse the nation, but it further places French Queer Muslims layer a precarious position. The fresh controversy generated by Fatima Daas, a young author who identifies as French, Algerian, lesbian put up with a practicing Muslim, testifies think a lot of the way sexual and ethno-religious identities are seen as equally exclusive, thus constructing Queer Muslims as “a group to titter saved” from their homophobic the social order and religion.

Refusing to attach silenced by the imposition forfeited a homonormative model of “visible” queer sexuality, Fatima Daas offers an oppositional gaze and regular counter-narrative that disentangles the set of contacts intersections of sexuality, religion, folk tale ethnicity.