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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 ...
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 ...
Young Somalis in Australia, the UK and the USA: an understanding of their identity and their sense of belonging
(© 2014 Institute of Muslim Minority Affairs., 2014-07-17)
The civil war in Somalia forced many Somalis to migrate to other countries where they had to adapt to new cultures and learn new languages. At the same time, they retained the identity and culture that were important to ...
Muslim Americans: Debating the Notions of American and Un-American
(© 2016 Taylor and Francis Inc., 2016)
With Islamophobia on the rise in the US since 9/11, Muslims remain the most misunderstood people in American society. Taking as its point of departure the question of the compatibility of Islam and democracy, this book ...
Young American Muslims: Dynamics of identity
(© 2013 Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
This book presents a journey into the ideas, outlooks and identity of young Muslims in America today. Based on around 400 in-depth interviews with young Muslims from Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and ...
Australian migrant children: ICT use and the construction of future lives
(© 2012 Routledge, 2012)
Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting ...