Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Cases
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- An Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Considerations of the “Burqa Ban” Trend: Criminalizing the Trivial or Separating National and International Law?
- PART I Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Strategy of Prohibition
- PART II Legal Perspectives: Religious Clothing, Law, and a Veil-Wearer’s Experiential Account
- Part II Legal Perspectives: Human Rights Perspectives
- Part II Legal Perspectives: National Perspectives
- PART III Responses To Otherness: Gender, Race, And The Veil Factor
- Epilogue
- Index
- About the Editors
Wearing the Ḥijāb: Cultural Awareness, Cross-Cultural Competence, and Interactions in an Unfamiliar Cultural Context
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 December 2021
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Cases
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- An Introduction to the Interdisciplinary Considerations of the “Burqa Ban” Trend: Criminalizing the Trivial or Separating National and International Law?
- PART I Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Strategy of Prohibition
- PART II Legal Perspectives: Religious Clothing, Law, and a Veil-Wearer’s Experiential Account
- Part II Legal Perspectives: Human Rights Perspectives
- Part II Legal Perspectives: National Perspectives
- PART III Responses To Otherness: Gender, Race, And The Veil Factor
- Epilogue
- Index
- About the Editors
Summary
Abstract
This chapter aims to analyze the relevance of cultural awareness, cross-cultural competence, and the emerging concept of cultural humility in fostering the integration of immigrants in contexts perceived as unfamiliar. The authors adopt positive organizational scholarship as their theoretical framework to highlight the conditions under which positive results are likely to emerge. The empirical research considers the experiences and perceptions of 216 veiled women in their daily interactions in the south of Italy. The general purpose is to understand if wearing the ḥijāb in a cultural context different from one's own affects the way of interacting with people in the community belonging to the dominant culture, the freedom to express their religious beliefs, and the meaning of the veil, the ḥijāb. The specific purpose is to analyze whether improvements in cross-cultural competence create positive conditions for the integration of immigrants (and their families) in their daily and work lives. Overall, this study offers a cross-cultural perspective and a dialogue on education to reinforce the notion that the efforts to integrate people with different cultural backgrounds can be effective when they learn from each other in the context in which they live.
Introduction
Skills and knowledge are crucial to interacting with different cultures, interpreting and analyzing one's own and others’ behavior, and adapting to different contexts in today's multicultural society. Such skills and knowledge are even more relevant when considering the integration of people from different cultural backgrounds living and working in the same community. Cross-culturally educated people, whether immigrants, residents, civil servants, health professionals, or entrepreneurs, can play a valuable role in creating positive conditions for integration, and embracing “cultural humility” is a critical first step. Aiming to highlight the “positive approach to studying diversity” and not just the “positive findings of diversity research,” this chapter adopts positive organizational scholarship as the theoretical approach previously used in studies of positives cases of organizations (and their members), and the processes, outcomes, attributes, and drivers of positive behaviors in the workplace that in turn contribute to exceptional individual and organizational performance.
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- Law, Cultural Studies and the 'Burqa Ban' TrendAn Interdisciplinary Handbook, pp. 393 - 410Publisher: IntersentiaPrint publication year: 2021