Double Discrimination and Cultural Hybridity: The Experiences of Muslim Immigrant Women in Men Don’t Cry by Guene

Abstract

This paper focuses on the experiences of Muslim immigrant women in the selected text Men Don’t Cry (2016), authored by the French-Algerian writer Faiza Guène, through the postcolonial lens of hybridity and double discrimination. The research aims to define the most frequent obstacles for Muslim immigrant women. The research objectives are to identify immigrant women's challenges in Europe and evaluate the effects of hybridity and double discrimination. The research also considers the intersectionality of gender, religion, and ethnicity in shaping the experiences of Muslim immigrant women in the selected text. The research explores how these immigrant women face double discrimination from the host country and sometimes by their community. The research uses the theories and concepts developed by Homi Bhabha and Stuart Hall to focus on cultural identity, diaspora, and power relations. Alan McKee’s textual analysis methodology is generally a suitable methodology for the analysis of the selected text. This research contributes to the general discourse created around migration, displacement, hybridity, and double discrimination faced by Muslim women in European countries. The current study also emphasises the importance of education, economic independence, and personal agency in empowering immigrant women to overcome these barriers and assert their identities and rights.