Abstract

Boundary regimes consist of multiple discursive and material registers in media, politics, law and everyday interaction. We show how “safety” and “danger,” as key concepts of symbolic boundaries, produce particular understandings of Muslim masculinities. In Canada, the government discussed (but did not enact) placing single Syrian men at the bottom of the admissible to-be-resettled refugee list in 2015. In Cologne, Germany, refugee men were accused of sexually assaulting a large number of women in 2015. Focusing on “safety” and “danger” discourses, we show that symbolic boundaries had limited material impact in Canada while they informed major legal changes in Germany.

摘要

边界制度由媒体，政治，法律和日常互动中的多种话语和物质语录组成。我们展示了作为象征性边界的关键概念的“安全”和“危险”如何对穆斯林男性气质产生特殊的理解。在加拿大，政府曾讨论过（但未颁布）在2015年将单身叙利亚男子排在可允许重新安置的难民名单的底部。在德国科隆，难民男子被指控性侵犯了大批妇女。 2015年。我们着眼于“安全”和“危险”话语，表明象征性边界对加拿大的物质影响有限，而它们却为德国的重大法律变更提供了信息。