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New on The Identities BlogConnecting White supremacy from the local to the global
How do two recent instances from the UK provide a window into a wider picture of White supremacy? In late 2025 Robert Jenrick, then the Conservative Shadow Justice Minister (who defected to the Reform Party in 2026) made headlines when he complained of ‘not seeing another White face’ in Handsworth, Birmingham. Handsworth is indeed one of most diverse places in the UK, hosting many ‘postcolonial’ immigrants....
Rethinking masculinities and feminist allyship
When discussions of gender equality surface in Turkey, attention often centers on women’s struggles and resistance. My research, published in Identities as ‘Unpacking the nexus of ethnoreligious identity, minority status, and young men’s feminist self-identification in Turkey’, shifts that focus to diverse young men who support gender equality. Based on face-to-face interviews I conducted with Sunni Turkish, Kurdish, Alevi and Arab Alawite men, the study examines how their ethnoreligious identities shape their paths toward (or away from) feminist allyship. The findings complicate the widespread assumption that marginalization fosters empathy for other oppressed groups....
North African Jewish identities in Québec
Identities are multiple, fragmented, fluid, and – generationally speaking – often quite complex. My Identities article, ‘Generations and difference: language, religion, and North African Jewish identification in Québec’, examines the generational dynamics of North African Jewish belonging in this francophone province through the interplay of language and religion. Drawing on 18 life-story interviews with North African Jewish immigrants in Québec, my article examines the coexistence of non-convergent identities across generations....
The UK citizenship test needs urgent reform
The Life in the UK test is well known for the triviality of its questions. Less discussed, however, is the racist and exclusionary message that the citizenship test communicates about ‘authentic Britishness’. The current Labour government has recently announced plans to ‘refresh’ the citizenship test. This must include the reversal of changes implemented by the Coalition government in 2013, which replaced practical information with selective history and general knowledge....
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