عنوان

Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America

Number

TL49556

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Contexts of Reception and Constructions of Islam: Second Generation Muslim Immigrants in Post-9/11 America

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Shahriyar Smith

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Stepick, Alex

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Portland State University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2017

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

149

Text of Note

Committee members: Kelly, Maura; Padin, Jose

Text of Note

Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-16847-1

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.S.

Discipline of degree

Sociology

Body granting the degree

Portland State University

Text preceding or following the note

2017

Text of Note

The World Trade Center attacks on September 11, 2001 fundamentally transformed the context of reception for Muslim immigrants in the U.S., shifting it from neutral to negative while also brightening previously blurred boundaries between established residents and the Muslim minority. This study explores how second-generation Muslim immigrants have experienced and reacted to post-9/11 contexts of reception. It is based on an analysis of ten semi-structured in-depth interviews that were conducted throughout the Portland Metropolitan Area from January to April of 2016. It finds experiences of discrimination to be primarily affected by two factors: public institutions and gender. It also finds, furthermore, that research participants react to negative post-9/11 contexts of reception by redrawing bright boundaries to include themselves within the American mainstream. Because Islam itself has become politicized within post-9/11 contexts of reception, this study also explores how second-generation Muslim immigrants construct and maintain religious meaning as a form of political identity. It finds that research participants unilaterally construct a Localized Islam that is dynamic and variable in its response to familial and social pressures. The thesis concludes by putting forward a typology outlining its four primary forms of localization within contemporary social and political environments.

Islamic Studies; Political science; Sociology

Subject Term

Social sciences;9/11;Context of reception;Immigrants;Immigration;Isamic;Second generation

Tanico, Matthew S.

Stepick, Alex

Subdivision

Sociology

Portland State University

Call Number

1950275850; 10286685

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[Thesis]

276903

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