Collectivistic Religions

Jakelić, Slavica

doi:10.4324/9781315572710

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“…In this case, "belonging is about an emotional : : : attachment, about feeling 'at home'" (Yuval-Davis 2006, p. 10).3 Research focuses also on economic assimilation-if migrants will build up the local economy (e.g.,Malhotra et al 2013;Mayda 2006)-but our focus here is more on the cultural and religious aspect of assimilation because we are examining identity rather than economic contributions in this line of inquiry. 4 For those in collectivistic religious communities, religion may feel like less of a choice(Jakelić 2010). Nonetheless, we argue that religious is still different than a racial categorization.…”

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Religion or Race? Using Intersectionality to Examine the Role of Muslim Identity and Evaluations on Belonging in the United States

d’Urso

Bonilla

2023

J. Race Ethnicity Politics

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How do White Americans evaluate the politics of belonging in the United States across different ethnoreligious identity categories? This paper examines this question through two competing frameworks. On the one hand, given the salience of anti-Muslim attitudes in the United States, we consider whether White Americans penalize Muslim immigrants to the United States regardless of their ethnoracial background. On the other hand, Muslim identity is often conflated by the general public with Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) ethnoracial identity. We argue MENA-Muslim identity should be understood through the lens of intersectionality. In this case, White Americans may penalize MENA-Muslims immigrants to the United States more than Muslims from other ethnoracial groups. We test these two frameworks through a conjoint experimental design wherein respondents are asked to evaluate immigrants and indicate to whom the United States should give a green card—signaling legal belonging—and how likely the immigrant is to assimilate into America—signaling cultural belonging. Although White Americans believe White Muslims may assimilate better to the United States relative to MENA-Muslims, race does not moderate how White Americans evaluate who should be allowed to belong in the United States.

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