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Pré-Publication, Document De Travail Année : 2021

Hijab-wearing women face interactional discrimination in everyday encounters: two field experiments

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The document introduces the idea of interactional discrimination and puts it to test through two interlocking field experiments. As a first approximation, interactional discrimination covers part of the phenomena usually designated with the more informal label of “everyday discrimination”. It is also close to other more formal ideas such as “interpersonal discrimination”, “micro-aggresion” and “assault on self-worth”. The latter three ideas are predicated on an opposition between economic and non-economic outcomes of discrimination. In contrast, the defining feature of interactional discrimination is the specific context in which it occurs: a spatio-temporally bounded episode of social interaction. The two reported field experiments show that women who wear an Islamic headscarf in France are exposed to interactional discrimination on the part of men. The data indicate that in the course of a face-to-face engagement with a hijab-wearing woman, men avert gaze, and that on average this pattern of gaze aversion causes strong negative emotions or stress in the recipient. The study shows that stress represents a specific form of harm that interactional discrimination causes to women who wear the hijab in public. It is argued that pre-existing ideas of everyday discrimination, owing to their focus on the conceptual experience of indignity, are not well-suited for accommodating the often unreflective experience of stress.

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Sociologie
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hal-03094580 , version 1 (04-01-2021)
hal-03094580 , version 2 (06-01-2021)
hal-03094580 , version 3 (17-10-2022)

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Martin Aranguren. Hijab-wearing women face interactional discrimination in everyday encounters: two field experiments. 2021. ⟨hal-03094580v3⟩
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