Muslim Immigrant Women, Navigating the Temporal and Spatial Dimensions of Racialization in Norway
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https://doi.org/10.7146/kkf.v38i1.153050Keywords:
racialization, muslim immigrant women, decolonial feminism, welfare racismAbstract
This article explores how racialized constructions of time and space shape the lived experiences of Muslim immigrant women in Norway, revealing how welfare institutions reproduce colonial hierarchies through temporal and spatial regulation. Drawing on biographical interviews and decolonial feminist theory, the analysis challenges Nordic exceptionalism and calls for a reimagining of care and relationality. It contributes to decolonial feminist studies of aesthesis by centering relational, embodied knowledge and amplifying the voices and epistemologies of those structurally marginalized within dominant welfare and social imaginaries.
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