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Contrasting colonial experiences shaped regional cleavages in the Philippines. Spain converted natives to Christianity but struggled with converting the Muslim population. Spain only succeeded in driving them further south. American colonialism also perpetuated this regional divide: Christians were under civilian rule while Muslims were under military rule. These administrative regional divides happened concurrently, but a cohesive Christian identity developed much sooner than a Muslim identity in the south. Why do some regional identities develop sooner than others? I argue that variation in the onset of identity formation is the result of contrasting colonial education policies that fell along regional lines. Christians experienced a penetrative education policy, which cultivated a shared experience and facilitated the development of a national identity. Muslims experienced a shallow education policy, which did not have a unifying objective. These factors maintained fragmentation, rather than fostering a cohesive Muslim national identity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article analyses the capacity for re-articulation and redefinition of identity developed by women converted to Islam. The adoption of a theoretical perspective committed to current feminisms allows us to go beyond the conceptual limits of other studies on conversion. These studies, following the functionalist tradition, focus the analysis on a generic «object» woman of academic construction, relegating their subjectively developed interpretative capacities to a mere epiphenomenon. However, focusing on some «subject» women converted to Islam allows us to describe the performativity and originality deployed in the construction of their new religious identities. The conversion is thereby a complex, multiple and continuous process which implies a gradual construction of meaning in a sociocultural context, pertaining to Europe, where a particular view of what it means to be a Muslim woman does not yet exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article we present the project we are carrying out in the 2010-2012 period (FIS: PS09/01449). This study is the continuation of the investigation we started in 2007 with the financing of the Consejeria de Salud of the Junta de Andalucia (the Andalusian Government Health Office) (PI424-2007) in which we analyze the Intercultural Communicative Competence of the Nursing professionals dealing with Muslim patients from the point of view of the professionals themselves. Now we aim at evaluating the Intercultural Communicative Competence of the Nursing professionals from the point of view of the Muslim immigrant users-patients. Objective: To know how the patients receiving the care value the Intercultural Communicative Competence of the nurses and nursing assistants. Methodology: Qualitative study, in-depth interviews and discussion groups as a data collecting strategy. Informants: men and women of Muslim tradition who have been hospitalized in one of the Public Hospitals of the province of Almería (Spain). Conclusion: Being aware of the perceived deficiencies will enable us to elaborate a series of suggestions-proposals for intervention aimed at improving the health care and attention offered to this collective of population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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El artículo discute el maurofobia/islamofobia y maurofilia/islamofilia en España en el siglo XXI. Se dice que los españoles han favorecido una percepción negativa de los arabomusulmanes en general y de los marroquíes en particular. Se hablan de los prejuicios y estereotipos que existen hacia los musulmanes.