Intersectionality and the Discourses of Women’s Social Movement Organizations across Europe

Abstract

This chapter presents some empirical findings based on the work carried out within the project Diversity and the European Public Sphere: Towards a Citizens’ Europe (Eurosphere). We analyse several questions dealing with the views on diversity (both general diversity and ethnonational diversity as defined within the project), and we aim to identify whether gender is mentioned or not mentioned in relation to diversity in the interviews, and how it intersects — or does not intersect — with other diversities (cultural, religious, linguistic and so forth); how diversity is framed by the respondents as either an advantage or a disadvantage for society; the arguments for or against the involvement of the state in the regulation of ethno-national diversity; and the extent to which integration of immigrants and minority groups is a one-way or a two-way process; that is, whether it implies adaptation efforts on the part of the public institutions in the receiving country, or whether it is only immigrants who are supposed to adapt to their new socio-political and cultural context.