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Not friend, not foe: the rocky road of enfranchisement of Muslims into multicultural nationhood in Australia and New Zealand
(© 2008 Immigrants and Minorities., 2008)
This paper compares the images of citizenship available through multicultural policy provisions to the Muslim minority in Australia and New Zealand. Its enfranchisement is fraught with difficulties in both countries. A ...
Young British Muslims: Identity, Culture, Politics and the Media
(© 2010 Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
Based on 216 in-depth interviews of Muslims in Britain, the book examines how British Muslim youths and young adults, 15-30 years old, define their identities, their values and their culture and whether these conflict ...
The road to a transcultural America: the case of American Muslim girls
(BRAC University, 2016-05-03)
Fernando Ortiz acknowledged the pain of colonisation and the uprooting of slaves from Africa from the sixteenth century onwards. Later, people from diverse backgrounds such as Jews, Anglo-Saxons and Chinese migrated to the ...
Muslims and the Australian labour market, 1980-2001
(© 2002 Frank Cass Publishers., 2002-11)
The unemployment of Muslims in Australia was 28 and 25 per cent compared to the national total of around nine per cent in 1986 and 1996 respectively (Australian Bureau of Statistics). This article conceptually analyses the ...
Are young Muslims adopting Australian values?
(© 2008 Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)., 2008-11)
Recently politicians in Australia have raised concerns that some Muslims are not adopting Australian values to a sufficient extent In this paper I explore the notion of Australian values with respect to immigrant youth. ...
The culture of mobile lifestyle: reflection on the past - the Afghan camel drivers, 1860-1930
(© 2009 Taylor & Francis., 2009-12)
In modern times when we speak of a mobile lifestyle we think of backpackers, fruit pickers, tourists, bikies or people living in caravans. Some people, of course, deliberately choose such a lifestyle. In the context of the ...
A study of Australian Muslim youth identity: the Melbourne case
(© 2011 Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs., 2011-06)
Australia is the home of 340,393 Muslims and they constitute about 1.7% of the total national population of 19,855,287 million people. 1 Muslims have migrated to Australia from several Muslim countries on their own will ...
The cronulla riots: Muslims’ place in the white imaginary spatiality
(© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015-09)
On 11 December 2005 at Sydney’s Cronulla Beach about 5000 Australians, mostly young men from Sutherland Shire, wrapped themselves in Australian flags and asserted that Cronulla Beach belonged to them through abusive language ...
Review article (Continuum (2012) 26:2 (315-323))
(© 2012 Routledge, 2012-01-01)
Free speech: creating the ‘Us and Them’ debate
(© 2014 Ashgate Publishing, 2014)
Developed countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom and America take pride in their democratic institutions, personal freedoms and secular ethos. However, these conditions and their eects can become highly contested ...