TY - JOUR A1 - Dagistanli, Selda A1 - Possamai, Adam A1 - Turner, Bryan S. A1 - Voyce, Malcolm A1 - Roose, Joshua T1 - The limits of multiculturalism in Australia? BT - The Shari’a flogging caseof R v. Raad, Fayed, Cifci and Coskun JF - The Sociological Review N2 - This article focuses on the marginal extremities – the limits – of Shari’a practices in Australia, through the example of a criminal case in which four Sydney-based Muslim men whipped a Muslim convert to punish him for his excessive consumption of drugs and alcohol. The men claimed they acted in line with the doctrines of Shari’a practice to ‘purify’ or absolve the victim of his sins. While the case was tried before a magistrate in a lower court, it is argued in this article that its social and political significance was wider, reaching into contemporary debates around multiculturalism and immigration from non-western, non-liberal and mainly Muslim nations. Mainstream media and political narratives viewed the whipping as an example of the moral dangers of accommodating Shari’a norms, eliding the differences between peaceable Shari’a and its violent extremities, while situating the case at the limits of multicultural accommodation. This article interrogates the objectionable margins of some cultural practices through this limit case. At the same time it questions the limits or limitations of a multiculturalism that homogeneously views the practices of entire ethnic or religious groups as violent and incommensurable with dominant norms, while using these understandings as a justification for marginalising these groups. KW - limits KW - multiculturalism KW - Muslims KW - racism KW - Shari’a Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118768133 SN - 0038-0261 SN - 1467-954X VL - 66 IS - 6 SP - 1258 EP - 1275 PB - Sage Publ. CY - London ER - TY - GEN A1 - Schwarzenthal, Miriam Jelena A1 - Schachner, Maja Katharina A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - Van De Vijver, Fons J. R. T1 - Reaping the benefits of cultural diversity BT - classroom cultural diversity climate and students’ intercultural competence T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe N2 - Culturally diverse schools may constitute natural arenas for training crucial intercultural skills. We hypothesized that a classroom cultural diversity climate fostering contact and cooperation and multiculturalism, but not a climate fostering color‐evasion, would be positively related to adolescents’ intercultural competence. Adolescents in North Rhine‐Westphalia (N = 631, Mage = 13.69 years, 49% of immigrant background) and Berlin (N = 1,335, Mage = 14.69 years, 52% of immigrant background) in Germany reported their perceptions of the classroom cultural diversity climate and completed quantitative and qualitative measures assessing their intercultural competence. Multilevel structural equation models indicate that contact and cooperation, multiculturalism, and, surprisingly, also color‐evasion (as in emphasizing a common humanity), were positively related to the intercultural competence of immigrant and non‐immigrant background students. We conclude that all three aspects of the classroom climate are uniquely related to aspects of adolescents’ intercultural competence and that none of them may be sufficient on their own. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 581 KW - color‐evasion KW - contact KW - intercultural competence KW - multiculturalism KW - school climate Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-437502 SN - 1866-8364 IS - 581 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Schwarzenthal, Miriam Jelena A1 - Schachner, Maja Katharina A1 - Juang, Linda P. A1 - van de Vijver, Fons J. R. T1 - Reaping the benefits of cultural diversity BT - Classroom cultural diversity JF - European journal of social psychology N2 - Culturally diverse schools may constitute natural arenas for training crucial intercultural skills. We hypothesized that a classroom cultural diversity climate fostering contact and cooperation and multiculturalism, but not a climate fostering color-evasion, would be positively related to adolescents’ intercultural competence. Adolescents in North Rhine-Westphalia (N = 631, Mage = 13.69 years, 49% of immigrant background) and Berlin (N = 1,335, Mage = 14.69 years, 52% of immigrant background) in Germany reported their perceptions of the classroom cultural diversity climate and completed quantitative and qualitative measures assessing their intercultural competence. Multilevel structural equation models indicate that contact and cooperation, multiculturalism, and, surprisingly, also color-evasion (as in emphasizing a common humanity), were positively related to the intercultural competence of immigrant and non-immigrant background students. We conclude that all three aspects of the classroom climate are uniquely related to aspects of adolescents’ intercultural competence and that none of them may be sufficient on their own. KW - color-evasion KW - contact KW - intercultural competence KW - multiculturalism KW - school climate Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.2617 SN - 0046-2772 SN - 1099-0992 VL - 50 IS - 2 SP - 323 EP - 346 PB - Wiley CY - Hoboken ER -