Abstract
Popular and professional representations of the body profoundly shape maternity care for migrant Muslim women from the Senegal River Valley in West Africa now residing in Paris France. In this article we suggest that the body has become the site of inscription for the politics of discrimination prevalent in France and heavily focused on Muslim immigrant populations. Muslim populations in France are represented mainly by North and sub-Saharan Africans although each of these communities has been stigmatized differently in the media and popular discourse. While North Africans are frequently categorized as religious fundamentalists reticent to assimilate to French society sub-Saharan Africans have until recently been less likely to be labeled as Muslims except with respect to the practice of polygamy. The November 2005 riots involving both North and sub-Saharan immigrants in France however generated public debate in which sub-Saharan migrants were prominently identified as Muslim. (excerpt)
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