Gil Benumeya D. (2024), Anti-Muslim hatred in Spain: Between Global Mechanisms and Local Specificities (La islamofobia en España, entre los dispositivos globales y las especificidades locales). 1991. Revista De Estudios Internacionales, 6(2), 158-173.

Country

Spain

Title

Gil Benumeya D. (2024), Anti-Muslim hatred in Spain: Between Global Mechanisms and Local Specificities (La islamofobia en España, entre los dispositivos globales y las especificidades locales). 1991. Revista De Estudios Internacionales, 6(2), 158-173.

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Year

2024

Publication type

Research evidence/report

Geographical coverage

National

Area/location of interest

Not applicable - national level

Type of Institution

Academic/research institution

Institution

Spain, Vol. 6 Núm. 2 (2024): Identidades, hibridaciones y contranarrativas: recorridos del islam en América Latina y España. Julio-diciembre 2024

Thematic focus

Public perceptions and attitudes

Groups

Muslims

Key findings

Anti-Muslim hatred grown as much in Spain as it has in other EU nations. This is not to say it doesn't exist or affect Muslim communities, but 1) it hasn't been very relevant in political discourse; it's only recently been used in Spain by a state-owned political force called Vox, and even then, it's only a small part of the overall discourse that this formation uses; and its response isn't at the center of political discourses of the opposite sign. 2) it lacks the intensity and concreteness of stigmatization that is overtly anti-Muslim. For populations taken into consideration, historical racism, xenophobia, and morophobia appear to be as relevant as or more so than other sources of change.

Methodology (Qualitative/Quantitative and exact type used, questionnaires etc)

Survey - quantitative research

Sample details and representativeness

N/A - not applicable/available

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