Migration, Poverty and Islamic Feminism(s) in Europe

I concentrate my research on the following questions raised by Islamic feminism:

• Within the paternalistic and liberal values' system of Europe, how does Islamic Feminism take its legitimacy?
• In a liberal order, does Islamic feminism have premises to orient societies' for struggling against social injustice?
• In a Europe with euro debt crisis, how far does Islamic feminism manage to elaborate an alternative order that extend its claim for dealing with poverty, where rights of the weak takes its legitimacy from the strong?
• Does this model constitute a system of values where everyone manages to live humanly? If so, what kind of roles does Islamic feminism give to women?
• While proposing a system based on the concept of “justice”, at what rate and how does Islamic feminism confront us with a series of new paradigms in the current neo-liberal system?
• Does Islamic feminism propose an alternative path of thinking for people at the margins in general -women, poor people, migrants, ...- or does it limit itself to its own marginalised group?

The series of question regarding the patriarchal system are rather authentic and interesting. For instance, while focusing on people affected the most from poverty over the last decade in Europe, particularly after the Euro debt crisis (2009-2014), Islamic feminism binds this issue with the paternalistic and neo-liberal value systems.

Therefore, this research is built at the intersection of the counter-hegemonic, post-modern and post-colonial feminist theories.

The first part of this project relies on analyzing and interpreting theoretical data inside literature. In the field, this project adopts a descriptive research method : A data survey on “poverty, feminism and Islam in Europe” is conducted in three major Western European capitals where the Muslim population is relatively high and where different State systems operate.