The burkini in German legal discourse: individualised integration, belonging, and the role of the state.
This article uses critical discourse analysis to examine how the German legal system ruled on a case about coeducational public-school swimming lessons and burkini-wearing from the court of first jurisdiction through the country's supreme court. It asks: How do the judiciary's decisions construct, m...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Ethnic & Migration Studies Vol. 49; no. 11; pp. 2627 - 2648 |
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Jun2023
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