Gendered Class Failure of Multiculturalism

Updated: 2026.01.01 27D ago 1 sources
Mass sexual‑assault episodes tied to migrant groups can be read not only as criminal incidents but as revealing how multicultural integration policies differentially fail by gender and by class: working‑class women bear disproportionate harms when institutions (police, media, local services) either downplay risks or lack culturally attuned responses. Treating such events as structural — not merely episodic — reframes immigration debates around local enforcement, gendered safety, and classed exposure. — This reframes migration policy from abstract population management to a concrete question of who is protected and how municipal institutions and media must change to safeguard working‑class women.

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Cologne, Ten Years On
Lisa McKenzie 2026.01.01 100% relevant
The article revisits the Cologne New Year’s 2016 assaults, citing police minimization, media hesitation about attackers’ migrant backgrounds, and the claim that working‑class women were especially failed by liberal multiculturalism.
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