Security, violence, and mobility: The embodied and everyday politics of negotiating Muslim femininities

This special issue investigates the politics of Muslim women's everyday and embodied negotiations of who they are as Muslims and as women in Europe and South Asia where they are a minority and subjected to heightened scrutiny. Collectively, the articles contribute to feminist geopolitics (Dowler & Sharp, 2001, 2011; Massaro & Williams, 2013) by examining how the discourses and strategies that target Muslim women - as victims, terrorists, or enemies - enable the production of nations, territory, and borders. The articles analyze how Muslim women position themselves in relation to the state, law, and society and how they negotiate, navigate, or contest the exclusion, territorialization, and securitization of their bodies and lives.