Constructing Subaltern Muslim Subjects: the Institutionalization of Islamophobia

Abstract The purpose of this special issue is to go beyond the terminological debate on Islamophobia and to focus on the practices, which are involved in, and cause, the construction of subaltern Muslim subjects within the Spanish state. The six articles of this monograph attempt to shed some light on the dynamics and extent of the processes of exclusion through which persons and groups (self-)identified as Muslim are being stigmatized and discriminated against in a structural manner, as a result of different kinds of institutionalized Islamophobia. Keywords: Muslims, Spain, Islamophobia, Anti-Muslim Racism, Racialisation Resumen El objetivo de este monografico es ir mas alla de los debates terminologicos sobre islamofobia, para centrar nuestra atencion en las practicas que causan y estan implicadas en la construccion de sujetos subalternos musulmanes en el seno del Estado espanol. Con los seis articulos del monografico se busca profundizar en la comprension de las dinamicas y el alcance de los procesos de exclusion a traves de los cuales las personas, y los grupos, (auto)identificados como musulmanes son estigmatizados y discriminados de un modo estructural, por medio de diferentes tipos de islamofobia institucionalizada. Palabras clave: musulmanes/as, Espana, islamofobia, racismo anti-musulman, racializacion