La construcción de la alteridad victimizada en los discursos políticos y mediáticos a través del debate sobre el uso de la burka

Abstract

In this article we will analyze the position of the political parties present in the Catalan parliament in legislature 2006-2010 regarding the burka ban in public spaces.This controversy feeds Islamophobia towards certain groups, particularly migrants.It is part of discursive politics that creates categories and intervenes on a createdneed seeking to acclaim occidental values as hegemonic against the “otherness”.The image of the immigrant woman is dressed submissively and is subalternized in order to be released from its patriarchal yoke in our civilized societies. A critical perspective on this restriction of freedom in public spaces has as spokesmen those parties located within the alternative left (nationalist) and environmentalist.