TY - JOUR
T1 - The 'lost' girls
T2 - Muslim young women in Australia
AU - Poynting, Scott
PY - 2009/11/1
Y1 - 2009/11/1
N2 - In an era of heightened concern about the second generation of Muslim immigrants in connection with 'home-grown terrorism' and supposed refusal to 'integrate', this paper interrogates the common sense that the second generation is 'lost' between cultures. Informed by in-depth, open-ended, semi-structured interviews with young second-generation Lebanese-background immigrants, this paper presents empirical material from two cohorts of participants, one in 1997 and one in 2003. Five cases are considered here, three from 1997 and two from 2003: all Muslim young women. It is argued that, far from being 'lost', the young women are constructing blended identities which they reflect on consciously, under circumstances of everyday racism to which they respond strategically.
AB - In an era of heightened concern about the second generation of Muslim immigrants in connection with 'home-grown terrorism' and supposed refusal to 'integrate', this paper interrogates the common sense that the second generation is 'lost' between cultures. Informed by in-depth, open-ended, semi-structured interviews with young second-generation Lebanese-background immigrants, this paper presents empirical material from two cohorts of participants, one in 1997 and one in 2003. Five cases are considered here, three from 1997 and two from 2003: all Muslim young women. It is argued that, far from being 'lost', the young women are constructing blended identities which they reflect on consciously, under circumstances of everyday racism to which they respond strategically.
KW - Gendered Ethnicity
KW - Integration
KW - Lebanese-Australian
KW - Muslim
KW - Racism
KW - Second Generation
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U2 - 10.1080/07256860903214123
DO - 10.1080/07256860903214123
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:70350306282
VL - 30
SP - 373
EP - 386
JO - Journal of Intercultural Studies
JF - Journal of Intercultural Studies
SN - 0725-6868
IS - 4
ER -