Inmigración, racismo y xenophobia, press review.
01 January 2003
Mugak July-September 2002, (Centro de Estudios y Documentación sobre racismo y xenophobia) pp.92. A press review of articles on immigration, racism and xenophobia from national and Basque Country newspapers. Includes feature articles on cultural clashes, in particular the much-publicised case of a young girl, Fatima, who attended a school run by nuns in El Escorial wearing a chador (head-scarf), and the construction of a political discourse according to which migrants are "impossible to integrate culturally". In the Fatima case, newspapers initially blamed the father for not allowing his daughter to receive education, government and opposition politicians claimed that the chador represented female submission, but eventually the right to education won out. Writings by authors including Foro de la Inmigración president Mikel Arzumendi (multiculturalism as gangrene) and Italian writer Oriana Fallaci (who is against Islam) are also examined.