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Hacer Z. Gonul is currently a PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), a researcher at Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales (REPI) and a member of the team dedicated to the Research Centre for East Asian Studies (EASt). She was awarded a scholarship from the FRESH (F.R.S- FNRS) Doctoral Program. She was a visiting fellow in the Centre of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
Standing up to China on Human Rights: The Case of the Uyghurs
After becoming a significant global player in the world economy and the global geostrategic calculus, China now seeks to redefine the normative framework that determines how states engage with their citizens and with each other. This strategy has considerable implications for the principle of universal human rights. The challenge to human rights universalism is exemplified by China’s crackdown on the country’s Uyghur minority.
Islam, Migrants and Multiculturalism: A Glance at Germany, Korea and Beyond
Are the principles of tolerance and pluralism that underpin progressive visions of political community under threat? In this essay, the authors discuss the rising tide of Islamophobia and anti-immigrant sentiment in Germany, East Asia, and elsewhere.
Domestic and International Considerations in China's “Halalification” (清真乏化)
This article explores Chinese eagerness to join and dominate the global Halal market via the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). Secondly, it examines why the state selected the Hui Muslims of Ningxia, rather than the larger community of Uyghurs in Xinjiang, to lead Sino-Muslim world trade. This section introduces model minority theory to assess Chinese government policy. Third, the article assesses the potential conflict between the Chinese export strategy with growing domestic resentment toward increasingly visible Halal segregation.
