Drawing on Marco Antonsich’s framework for analyzing belonging while also engaging critical legal geographies, this article applies a legal lens to Muslim belonging. It does so through discourse analysis of court, legislative, and political pronouncements regarding burkini bans that surfaced in France shortly after a terror attack by a self-identified Muslim, and with ‘burkini’ serving as a proxy for Islam in their rhetoric. The article focuses on the language used by France’s highest administrative court in overturning one city’s ban, as well as language used by French political leaders in supporting the bans, to examine the message of belonging conveyed to Muslims in France. Legal language is the focus because of its ability to frame conversations regarding societal norms, with the language explored here framing the broader debate on Muslim belonging in French public space and arguably what the French population believes is necessary to belong in French society. This exploration provides a foundation for further research by scholars exploring issues of identity, migration, belonging, race, and religion, using methodologies such as feminism and critical race theory that can readily connect with the critical legal approach applied here.

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法国的海滩和穆斯林：自由，平等，但布基尼人不是！

本文借鉴了Marco Antonsich的分析财产归属的框架，同时也涉足了重要的法律地理区域，本文将法律视角应用于穆斯林的财产归属。它是通过对法院，立法和政治声明的话语分析来做到这一点的，这些声明涉及在自认为穆斯林的恐怖袭击后不久在法国出现的布基尼禁令，并以“布基尼”作为伊斯兰言论的代名词。本文重点介绍了法国最高行政法院在推翻一个城市的禁令时所使用的语言，以及法国政治领导人在支持该禁令中所使用的语言，以检验传达给法国穆斯林的归属感。法律语言成为焦点，因为它能够组织有关社会规范的对话，此处探讨的语言构成了关于穆斯林在法国公共空间中归属问题的广泛辩论，可以说是法国人认为属于法国社会所必需的。这项探索为学者们利用诸如女权主义和批判种族理论之类的方法论探索身份，移民，归属，种族和宗教问题的进一步研究提供了基础，这些方法可以很容易地与此处采用的批判法律方法联系起来。