Racial and religious contexts: situational identities among Lebanese and Somali Muslim immigrants
This study addresses the racial and religious contexts of identity formation among Lebanese immigrants to the United States of America and Somali immigrants to Canada. Each enters with a different racial status: Lebanese as white; Somalis as black/visible minority. Ethnographic interviews explore th...
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| Language: | English |
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Routledge
2007
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Ethnic and racial studies
Year: 2007, Volume: 30, Issue: 1, Pages: 72-94 |
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Religious identity
B Usa B Relationstechnik B Assimilation Sociology B Population group B Muslim B International migration B Canada B Lebanese people B Simile B Vereinigte Staaten Canada International migration Religiöse Bevölkerungsgruppe Muslime Lebanese people Somalis Identity Assimilation Theory formation Relationstechnik Simile B Somalis B Theory formation B Identity |
| Summary: | This study addresses the racial and religious contexts of identity formation among Lebanese immigrants to the United States of America and Somali immigrants to Canada. Each enters with a different racial status: Lebanese as white; Somalis as black/visible minority. Ethnographic interviews explore the strategies of adaptation and identity development within these groups. Specifically, we compare and contrast the Lebanese and Somali experience through an analysis of ethnic relations in the country of origin, the conditions of immigration, and through accounts of their encounters and identity negotiation with the host society. We demonstrate the strategies each group implements to negotiate both race and religion in identity development. Our findings reveal that each group attempts to make their religious identity evident, however, Somali immigrants must negotiate the effects of 'othering' processes with both race and religion, while Lebanese immigrants build a religious identity from privileges afforded to them by virtue of their white racial status. (Ethnic and Racial Studies) |
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| ISSN: | 0141-9870 |
| Contains: | In: Ethnic and racial studies
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