"Bad boys never call me by my name, they call me ‘moor’ every day": an ethnographic approach to otherness and identities on Muslim immigrant students

Abstract

The text analyses the relation in the Spanish context between the problematization of the migratory phenomenon, the new logics of functioning of racism and the conceptual proposals on ‘islamophobia’ that have been established during the last years. To do that, the paper presents some results of different ethnographic researches where I have being working for during the last years in the educational context of Andalusia. Based on biographic interviews with students, families and teachers, the paper illustrates the main representations about the Muslim immigrant students as well as the correspondences and divergences among these images of otherness and those teenagers’ identification processes.