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Muslims in Australia: Immigration, Race Relations and Cultural History
(© 2004 Kegan Paul, 2004)
In Muslims in Australia, Nahid Kabir seeks to understand the basis of mainstream Australians fear by tracing Muslim history since the Afghan settlement in 1860. In social, economic and political contexts, the author compares ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
Muslims in a 'White Australia': colour or religion?
(© 2006 Immigrants and Minorities., 2006-07)
Muslim migration to Australia took place over three distinct periods - the Colonial, the 'White Australia' and the Multicultural periods. This article discusses the settlement issues of Muslims during the 'White Australia' ...