Intersectional Analysis, Child Custody and Islamophobia: Methodological Challenges

In this paper I will present my first results from an ongoing Swedish study on how muslim families are perceived, and handled by social workers. My method is interviews with social workers on how they perceive muslim families and an analysis of documents concerning whether social services should replace children belonging to muslims famillies. My theoretical framework is an intersectional analysis where the children right's perspective, gender, age, religion and race is analyzed. By introducing islamophobia in a micro- macro level analysis in a diverse power analysis  new methodological questions concerning inequality is posed to the intersectional analysis.