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Hersi, Abdi Mohamud. "Australian Muslims’ Conceptions of Integration." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367708.
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Currently, the scholarly literature does not address the possibility of the existence of a counter narrative of what integration might mean to the immigrant communities who are the subjects of the integration debate. In the case of Muslim immigrants in Australia, their perspectives on what integration means is absent from this debate. This study therefore attempts to examine the meanings of integration from the perspective of the Muslim people themselves. Over the course of 2010 and 2011, four focus group discussions were conducted with Muslims in the South East Queensland region of Australia. Concerning the issues of their integration into Australian society, Muslim participants were asked to define what integration means and also to state what activities and behaviours they would attach to the meaning of integration. Qualitative data analysis employing NVIVO software was used to categorise particular interpretations of integration into themes.
The study found that the meanings Muslims give to the term “integration” are by and large similar to those prevalent in the scholarly literature on integration. In general, Muslims ascribe to the term meanings relating to participation, belonging and contributing to the wider society. Noticeably, they conceptualise integration in socio- economic terms rather than in cultural terms. However, the study concludes that the meanings that integration has for Muslims are generally influenced by their faith. For example, Muslims expressly reject activities and behaviours they perceive to compromise their faith, and evidently make a distinction between integration and assimilation. Overall, this thesis argues that an understanding of how Muslims define integration may help policy makers, academics and settlement service providers appreciate how culture and faith influence the meanings that religiously and culturally diverse groups give to certain generally accepted terms, such as integration.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Arts, Education and Law
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Ahmeti, Sharon. "Albanian Muslims in secular, multicultural Australia." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2017. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=233139.
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This paper examines the discourses of multiculturalism and secularism in Australia through the lens of Albanian Muslims living in two Victorian cities, Shepparton and Dandenong. Grounded on 17 months of fieldwork and an analysis of Australian government policy, it argues that the reliance of State policies on constructed concepts of ethnicity, religion, nationality and community are inadequate based on the divergences of understanding and use of these concepts between the Albanian people I met and their use in State policies and projects. This thesis considers Albanians' position as white European Muslims in a supposedly multicultural and secular nation that has become increasingly hostile towards Islam over recent years. In Australian dominant narratives of nation, Ethnic and Anglo-Australians are constructed as oppositional categories in a tripartite structure (that also includes Indigenous Australians) and Muslims are considered a relatively new Other. Yet, Albanian Muslims arrived in significant numbers in Australia more than 100 years ago, during the White Australia policy years. Their European background and varied approaches to being Muslim that are often described as tolerant and relaxed adds a largely unheard voice to both the diversity of Islam and to the increasing hostile tension between Muslims and 'the West' that are reflected in mainstream political and media rhetoric. The idea of an inherent clash between Islam and the West is maintained through the enactment of a particular kind of secularism that is implemented in ways specific to Australia, based on Christian-oriented thought system rooted in the European Enlightenment and Reformation. Similarly, multiculturalism is based on a particular worldview based on Liberal normative assumptions and supposed shared 'Australian values' and character, creating an inherent paradox and the enduring marginalisation of 'Ethnics'.
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Behrouzinia, Tahmoores. "The socio-demographic characteristics of Muslim communities in Australia, 1981-96." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phb421.pdf.
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Bibliography: leaves 483-532. This study contributes to the limited body of knowledge regarding Muslim settlement in Australia by elucidating the processes of contemporary settlement and adjustment of Muslim groups in Australia and assessing the role and significance of religion (Islam) in those processes. It focuses on the cultural, economic, social and demographic adjustments of these groups to Australian society and explores the role of Islam in the adjustment.
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Nakhoul, Ghassan. "Media Representations of Arabs & Muslims in Post-Multicultural Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10120.
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This research examines the representations of Arab and Muslim Australians in the media and political discourse on the issues of terrorism, boat people and the Cronulla riots, during the Howard years. The research is based on analysing events, political statements, media reports and broadcasts that have negatively portrayed the Arabic and Muslim communities in Australia. The study argues that the contemptuous depiction of Arabs and Muslims in the mainstream media was due to two factors: Orientalist attitudes and the ushering of a new post-multiculturalism era which is now being carried out under the banner of social inclusion. I have termed the difficult times that Australia has experienced with some controversial issues concerning Arabs and Muslims, such as the issues of terrorism, boat people and ethnic tensions as the ‘Australian Trials’. I have also identified the Orientalist Aussie as the main agent, the stirrer and the cause of the Australian Trials. While the first chapter sets the context of Australian attitudes towards multiculturalism in general, the remaining three chapters deal with the issues of terrorism, boat people and the Cronulla events as debated in the media and political discourse.
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Kabir, Nahid Afrose. "The Muslims in Australia : an historical and sociological analysis, 1860-2002 /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2003. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16997.pdf.
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Sneddon, David. "A history of faith-based micro, meso and macro dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims in Australia prior to 9/11." Phd thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2021. https://doi.org/10.26199/acu.8wq7v.
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Inter-religious dialogue is an essential means for different faiths and believers to develop friendship and understanding in an increasingly global and multifaith society. Additionally, it could provide for increased levels of social harmony in a seemingly divided yet ever-shrinking globalised world. Islam has a long history with Australia that pre-dates European colonisation; however, research into the nature and impact of interfaith dialogue between Muslims and non-Muslims is scarce.
To date, there is an extensive gap in the academic record as no comprehensive historical exploration on inter-religious dialogue prior to 9/11 between Muslims and non-Muslims has been undertaken in Australia. Accordingly, it is envisaged that this will be the most comprehensive research on the topic to date. Uniquely, through the application of the sociological population-level constructs of micro, meso and macro-level analysis this research has looked for evidence of cyclical patterns of inter-religious dialogue over Australia’s long history and contact with Islam. A key question for this research is how, if at all, have different sociological levels of dialogue, as represented in the public and private record, contributed to meaningful social harmony? It is hoped that this historical enquiry will place some light on past paradigm shifts in interfaith relations and assist in the future of interfaith dialogue in a uniquely Australian context.
Using the public record, along with other related academic works, this research has analysed the available evidence to establish the sociological levels of interfaith dialogue that existed in Australia up to 2001. A brief overview of the history of global and local inter-religious dialogue has been provided that includes the approaches taken by the various religions as outlined in the sacred texts, the Torah, Gospels and Qur’an. It also looks to outline the changes that have occurred surrounding religion in Australia over time.
Initial research has demonstrated levels of micro and meso-level dialogue in the pre-colonial period between the Muslim Baijini, Macassans and Australia's Indigenous peoples. Following colonisation, this dialogue largely disappeared and was replaced by a period of mutual monologue, enforced by the dominant Christian hegemony, notwithstanding the contribution by members of the Islamic community to the exploration and construction of modern Australia. Despite the effects of the Immigration Restriction Act (1901), Muslims continued to migrate to Australia and integrate into the community, including those from British India and Albania. Many kept their religious beliefs and thrived in several Australian towns through the 20th Century. As the century progressed, so did the growth of the Australian umma, with migrants arriving from Turkey, Lebanon, Bosnia, Indonesia, the Middle East and North Africa. Through a critical historical analysis of the public and private records, this research has looked to illustrate to true nature of the sociological levels and effectiveness of dialogue from the first contact with Islam, sometime before the 17th Century until the beginning of the 21st Century.
Importantly, the key contribution of this research has also found that the levels of dialogue have been measurable and over time, cyclical in nature, when measured using the sociological constructs of micro, meso and macro. Additionally, this research has uncovered the importance of ecumenical dialogue as a precursor to any meaningful inter-religious dialogue, largely driven by the Catholic Church’s Declaration Nostra Aetate in 1965. Other aspects of the findings include, the need for a critical mass, some form of organisation and favourable political conditions. Finally, shortcomings and suggestions for further avenues of research are discussed.
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McCaffrey, Claire. "The perception and impact of countering violent extremism programmes for Muslims in Sydney, Australia." Thesis, University of Chester, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/620648.
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This thesis examines how the countering violent extremism initiatives implemented by the Australian government since 2011 have been received by Muslim communities in Sydney and the impact such measures have had, particularly, for those communities. Investigating the reception and impact of such initiatives both for and within Muslim communities, is vital in order to understand the scope of their reach and their efficiency. This thesis – addressing the lack of literature on this issue - will take the form of a case study of such programmes and their receipt by Muslim communities in Sydney, using primarily, qualitative research gathered through the use of semi-structured and unstructured interviews, as well as focus groups within Muslim communities in Sydney and policy reports gathered by both governmental and non-governmental bodies. Through an examination of the discourse adopted by the Howard government, in the period from 2001 to 2007, this study unearths and highlights the hostile, anti-Muslim environment in which the countering violent extremism measures were introduced. This environment was characterised by racism, negative stereotyping and vindication. Furthermore, through an analysis of this anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant narrative and discourse, the perceived threat posed by militant Islam to Australia and its interests constitutes both a process and discourse of securitisation by both the Howard government and the media. Data from fieldwork serves to evidence and reiterate the anti-Muslim undercurrent of Howard’s discourse maintaining the suspect community narrative and culminating in the securitisation of the Muslim population. The poor receipt of these measures by Muslim communities and the detrimental impact in terms of further marginalisation, alienation, and suspicion are testament to the counter-terror discourse and the growth in community based counter-terror measures.
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Krayem, Ghena. "To recognise or not to recognise, that is NOT the question : family law and the Muslim community in Australia." Thesis, Faculty of Law, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/14973.
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Rostom, Mustafa. ""Scattered cedars in a Western town" : interviews with Lebanese Muslims on the family, ethnicity, gender and racism /." Connect to thesis, 2003. http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/archive/00000444.
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Lourigan, Shawn Daniel. "News Limited and the Construction of Howard Government Discourse about Muslims in Australia 2001-2007." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365742.
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The 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Centre can be justifiably viewed as a turning point in relations between the Islamic world and the West, foregrounding a dominant pejorative representation of Muslims and Islam that continues unabated. The aim of this thesis is to explore media representations of Howard Government discourse about Muslims in Australia from 2001 to 2007.
The research examined three prominent and highly popularised cases relating to Islam and Muslims, namely comments made in 2006 by the ex-Grand Mufti of Australian Muslims, Sheik Hilali; the arrest and detention in 2007 of Doctor Mohamed Haneef; and the discourse surrounding the traditional female Muslim garment known as the hijab.
This thesis examines the language used by the government and by News Limited print media when referring to Muslims and Islam from 2001 to 2007, to ascertain whether there was a marked increase in the use of terms that could be classified as being negative or perpetuating stereotypes. I used a combined qualitative/quantitative methodology to examine both the collated newspaper articles and political documents.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
Arts, Education and Law
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Abbas, Mae. "Acculturation, Mental Health, and Help-Seeking Behaviours of Muslim Adults Living in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/17332.
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This exploratory study seeks a deeper understanding of Australian Muslims by examining their acculturation preferences, mental health status, coping strategies, and attitudes towards help-seeking. A cross-sectional convenience sample of 324 Australian Muslim adults, recruited via non-probability snowball sampling and social media advertisements, completed either online or paper questionnaires in either English or Arabic. Acculturation, ethnic identity (MEIM), psychological distress (K10), coping (active and passive), help-seeking (ATSPPHS-SF), and demographic variables were measured. Participants were relatively young and female, with high religiosity, education, and psychological distress. Over 78% were Australian-born, and almost 85% had lived in Australia for over 15 years. Although integration was the preferred acculturation strategy across all generations, results indicated acculturation and self-identity was influenced particularly by age, ethnic identity, religiosity, and generation. For instance, first-generation Australian Muslims were older, had stronger ethnic identity and religiosity, and more commonly self-identified as non-Australian (i.e. felt separated from the mainstream Australian population). By contrast second- and third-generation were younger, less attached to their ethnic culture and more likely to self-identify as bicultural or Australian. Psychological distress was highest among those born overseas, less attached to religion, and younger in age. The most utilised coping strategies were passive in nature. Help-seeking was often a last resort involving informal methods like seeking guidance from religious advisors. The findings suggest that mental health support should focus on overseas-born Australian Muslims and younger persons (18-25 years), and that religious instruction may assist in the management of distress. Future qualitative research would provide an in-depth understanding into these matters.
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Aly, Anne M. "Audience responses to the Australian media discourse on terrorism and the 'other' : the fear of terrorism between and among Australian Muslims and the broader community." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/176.
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The terrorist attcks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001 heralded an era of unprecedented media and public attention on the global phenomenon of terrorism. Implicit in the Australian media's discourse on terrorism that evolved out of the events of 11 September is a construction of the Western world (and specifically Australia) as perpetually at threat of terrorism.
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." Thesis, full-text, 2009. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/2006/.
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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process.
Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community.
The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2.
The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony.
Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Haveric, Dzavid. "History of the Bosnian Muslim Community in Australia: Settlement Experience in Victoria." full-text, 2009. http://eprints.vu.edu.au/2006/1/Dzavid_Haveric.pdf.
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This thesis examines the settlement experience of the Bosnian Muslims in Victoria. Overall this research exploration takes places against background of the history of the immigration to Australia. The study covers migration patterns of Bosnian Muslims from post World War 2 periods to more recent settlement. The thesis provides contemporary insights on Bosnian Muslims living in a Western society such as Australia. The thesis excavates key issues about Islam and the Muslim communities in Western nations and argues that successful settlement is possible, as demonstrated by the Bosnian Muslim community. By adopting a socio-historical framework about settlement, the thesis reveals the significant, interconnected and complex aspects of the settlement process. Settlement of immigrants takes place within global, historical, economic, political, social and cultural elements of both the sending and receiving countries. Thus any study of settlement must examine theories and concepts on migration, settlement, religion, culture, integration and identity. The purpose for migration, the conditions under which migration takes place, the conditions of immigrant reception are fundamental in the context of Australia. Furthermore, Australia since the 1970s has adopted a policy of multiculturalism which has changed settlement experiences of immigrants. These elements are strongly analysed in the thesis both through a critical conceptual appraisal of the relevant issues such as migration, multiculturalism and immigration and through an empirical application to the Bosnian Muslim community. The theoretical element of the study is strongly supported by the empirical research related to settlement issues, integration and multiculturalism in Victoria. Through a socio-historical framework and using a ‘grounded theory’ methodological approach, field research was undertaken with Bosnian Muslim communities, Bosnian organizations and multicultural service providers. In addition, historical data was analysed by chronology. The data provided rich evidence of the Bosnian Muslims’ settlement process under the various governmental policies since World War 2. The study concluded that the Bosnian community has successfully integrated and adapted to the way of life in Australia. Different cohorts of Bosnian Muslims had different settlement patterns, problems and issues which many were able to overcome. The findings revealed the contributions that the Bosnian Muslim community has made to broader social life in Australia such as contribution to the establishment of multi-ethnic Muslim communities, the Bosnian Muslim community development and building social infrastructure. The study also concluded that coming from multicultural backgrounds, the Bosnian Muslims understood the value of cultural diversity and contributed to the development of Australian multiculturalism and social harmony. Overall conclusion of this research is that the different generations of Bosnian Muslims are well-integrated and operate well within Australian multiculturalism.
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Lawson, David Edward. "Indigenous Australians and Islam : spiritual, cultural, and political alliances." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2010. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/41738/1/David_Lawson_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis examines why and how Indigenous Australians convert to Islam in the New South Wales suburbs of Redfern and Lakemba. It is argued that conventional religious conversion theories inadequately account for religious change in the circumstances outlined in this study. The aim of the thesis is to apply a sociological-historical methodology to document and analyse both Indigenous and Islamic pathways eventuating in Indigenous Islamic alliances. All of the Indigenous men interviewed for this research have had contact with Islam either while incarcerated or involved with the criminal justice system. The consequences of these alliances for the Indigenous men constitute the contribution the study makes to new knowledge. The study employs a socio-historical and sociological focus to account for the underlying issues by a literature review followed by an ethnographic participant observation methodology. In-depth open-ended interviews with key informants provided the rich qualitative data to compliment literature review findings. For the Indigenous people involved in this study, Islamic religious identity combined with resistance politics formed a significant empowering framework. For them it is a symbolic representation of anti-colonialism and the enduring scourge of social dysfunction in some Indigenous communities.
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Baghdadi, Fadi. "Abnaa’u Marj el-Zhour: Lebanese Migration and Citizenship in Wollongong." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/20697.
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The confessional system in Lebanon was designed in response to the diversity of cultures and religions in Lebanon’s sectarian society. However, Lebanese immigrant communities are commonly understood through their shared national identity. In Australia, the majority of Lebanese migrants emigrated from Northern Lebanon and settled in Western Sydney. This has resulted in the dominant image of Lebanese living in Australia constructed academically and discursively in the national imaginary through the experiences of Western Sydney Lebanese who emigrated from Northern Lebanon. Drawing on 38 semi-structured interviews from four generations of Lebanese migrants from Marj el-Zhour living in Wollongong, this study explores how Lebanese Muslim migrants living in Wollongong maintain the social relations of their transnational diaspora village, navigate questions surrounding their citizenship and political loyalty, and form their own localised ethnic and religious identities in the contemporary globalised multicultural nation-state. Like many high immigrant intake Western nations, Australia’s immigration policy in the 1970s and 1980s was one which asked unskilled migrants to assimilate and succumb to their proletarianization. However, a fundamental morality of social reciprocity fostered in the village of Marj el-Zhour, challenged the process of individuation and independence promoted by an individualist Australian capitalism. I draw on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical framework of field, habitus, capital, and illusio to understand how the social relations of reciprocity that are fostered in Marj el-Zhour continue to orient and guide the migrants when navigating the new social, political, and economic environments they entered in the migration process. Migration studies documents the ways multicultural societies are comprised through the formation of ethnic communities. Drawing on the theoretical framework of Renato Rosaldo, I chart the increasing visibility of Lebanese ethnicity as marking one culturally visible and therefore signifying their distance from the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture of Australian society. Following the events of the 9/11 Islamist terrorist attacks in New York, international migration was increasingly framed as a security problem in the West and debate about Muslim difference in Australia and throughout the western world shifted from a discussion about cultural compatibility to a politics of loyalty. The marrying of a “security threat” and “politics of loyalty” symbolised through a transnationalised Muslim Other marks Lebanese Muslim citizens as visible through an essentialised cultural difference. In this environment, there is a conditionality of Muslim citizenship on the basis Muslim citizens continuously demonstrate their loyalty to the nation-state. This loyalty is signified by their commitment to achieving cultural invisibility. Therefore, I explore the various strategies Lebanese Muslims adopt to reduce their distance from the dominant Anglo-Celtic culture and overcome the conditionality of the citizenship in Australian society. However, Lebanese Muslim migrants living in Wollongong are not merely victims who endure, lacking agency in a social field which internationalises the conditionality of their citizenship. Rather, by understanding their experiences through the enduring influence of a culture of moral reciprocity and the generative properties of the habitus, I illustrate the ways Lebanese Muslim migrants in Wollongong actively engage with and affect social change in Australian society.
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Hsieh, Yi-Jung. "Male Muslim Refugee Experiences of English Language Training Programmes and Links to Employment in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365256.
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Since the modern Refugee and Humanitarian Programme began in 1977, around 14,000 refugees have been granted residency in Australia every year, with Muslim communities now representing more than 50 per cent of the intake. Most of these refugees entering Australia speak little, if any, English, have little or no education in their first language, and most do not possess employment skills or qualifications valued in the Australian workplace. The Federal Government thus offers them English language training within the Adult Migrant English Programme (AMEP) and the Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) programme. These programmes aim to provide refugee migrants with enough English proficiency to gain employment in Australia, and to successfully participate socially and economically in Australian society. However, there has been only limited research specifically centred on these Federal English training programmes. In particular, there have been no in-depth studies centred on the opinions of the actual refugee clients attending these programmes. The research in this thesis thus investigates the perspectives of a group of eight male Muslim refugees on the effectiveness of the Federal English Language Training Programmes in facilitating their settlement and employment in Australia. Male Muslim refugees were chosen as participants as they represent a particularly disadvantaged, but under-researched, minority social group in Australian society.
A qualitative research design and methodology was adopted for this research, framed within a socio-critical (transformative) research paradigm. Data was collected using in-depth, semi- structured interviews, and then analysed and described using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu’s conceptual tools of field, capital and habitus. The findings from this research suggest that there may be a number of key problems with the language training programmes. Most of the refugees in the study failed to find consistent employment, and many entered a repetitive cycle of intermittent attendance at the English training programmes. Additionally, many of the participants reached only a basic proficiency in oral English communication, making little or no progress in their literacy acquisition, and thus they were generally unable to complete any vocational qualifications.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Del-Grosso, Marc-Olivier. "The perception of islam by political parties : a comparative analysis of the rhetorical and perceptive schemes used in Australia and France." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AIXM0003.
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La perception de l'islam dans les deux pays s'inscrit dans deux contextes historiques très différents, qui ont forgé des systèmes de contraintes et de ressources propres. Les dynamiques de ces contextes sont de deux natures, endogène et exogène. Endogène, d'abord, pour l'histoire migratoire et les conditions d'installation spécifiques des populations musulmanes dans les deux pays. Les dynamiques exogènes découlent de la prise en charge par les autorités publiques. En analysant l'islam sous ce prisme multidimensionnel, cette thèse sert trois objectifs respectivement épistémologique, méthodologique et heuristique. D'un point de vue théorique, la thèse montre que la perception de l'islam par les partis politiques illustre la nécessité d'articuler des processus de surdétermination structurelle et des modalités d'objectivation dans l'approche sociologique. En termes pratiques, cela implique l'exploration de nouvelles manières de trianguler les outils qualitatifs et quantitatifs pour combiner les dimensions microsociologiques, mésosociologiques et macrosociologiques, de même que diachronicité et synchronicité des constats empiriques. Ce faisant, la comparaison examine comment deux "types" de traditions légales-politiques ont modelé différentes réponses à la question de l'intégration des musulmans dans les cadres cognitifs et axiologiques du pays, et permet de mettre en perspective des discours et des représentations sur la période 2001-2015. La thèse montre la pertinence limitée de dualismes traditionnels comme l'opposition droite/gauche sur cette question et suggère des postures alternatives pour dépasser ces biaisThe perception of Islam in France and Australia revolves around two very different socio-historical contexts, which produced differentiated systems of constraints and resources for political parties. The structuring dynamics of these contexts are both endogenous and exogenous. The endogenous ones include the migratory history and the specific conditions of settlement of Muslim populations in both countries. The exogenous dynamics ensue from the public authorities' management. In analysing Islam under this multidimensional prism, this thesis serves three purposes: an epistemological one, a methodological one and a heuristic one. From a theoretical point of view, it shows that the perception of Islam by political parties epitomises the necessity of articulating structural overdetermination processes and modalities of objectivation in the sociological approach. In practical terms, this involves exploring new ways to triangulate qualitative and quantitative tools for combining microsociological, mesosociological and macrosociological dimensions, as well as the diachronicity and synchronicity of empirical observations. In doing so, the comparison examines how two "types" of legal-political traditions have shaped different answers to the same question of integrating Muslims within the axiological and cognitive frameworks of the country, and further enables putting into perspective party discourses and representations on the period 2001-2015. It shows the limited relevance of traditional dualisms like the Left/Right opposition on this issue and suggests alternative analytical stances to overcome their biases
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Myhr, Ingrid Breivik. "Feelings of identity and belonging amongst Australian born Muslims /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2005. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe18748.pdf.
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Abu-Rayya, Maram. "Identity, psychological adaptation, and socio-cultural adaptation among Australian adolescent Muslims." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13724.
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This research project aimed at examining the interconnections between identity-based intrapsychic forces¬ — specifically, cultural identity, Australian identity, religiosity, and personal/ego identity— and psychological and socio-cultural adaptation of Australian adolescent Muslims. The study extends previous research on minority adolescents which mainly investigated the role adolescents’ acculturation modes play in their adaptation. The study employed a mixed-method design involving quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The quantitative part of the study recruited a sample of 321 high school Muslim students (149 males and 172 females) aged between 14 and 18 years studying at Muslim schools in metropolitan Sydney, Australia, who filled in a survey measuring among other things their cultural identity, Australian identity, religiosity, personal/ego identity, and adaptation. The qualitative part of this research project conducted semi-structured interviews with a subset of 18 Australian adolescent Muslims from the same cohort of participant schools. The interviews examined participants’ cultural identity, Australian identity, religiosity, and the role each plays in their adaptation. A series of hierarchical regression analyses, controlling for socio-demographic factors, revealed that while adolescents’ preference for integration of their cultural and Australian identities was advantageous for a range of their psychological and socio-cultural adaptation measures, marginalisation was consistently the worst. Similarly, while personal/ego identity achievement was advantageous for a range of adaptation measures among the participants, diffusion was consistently the worst. Further hierarchical regression analyses, controlling for socio-demographic factors, showed that adolescent Muslims’ religiosity, and to a certain degree their personal/ego identity achievement, was better for a range of their adaptation measures compared to their preference for an integration acculturation style. This finding was generally supported by the qualitative analysis revealing that adolescent Muslims were in a better position to see a positive role of religiosity in their adaptation, compared to their cultural identity or being Australian.
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Samani, Shamim Ekbal. "Muslim women responding to globalization: Australian and Kenyan narratives." Thesis, Curtin University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/2567.
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The cultural determinism summoned in the discourse on the ‘war on terror’ embraces gender frames that invigorate the Islam and the West divide. In a vacuum of historical, geo-political and economic contexts, such frames conjure a Muslim woman archetype in opposition to Western conceptualizations of modernity. Ignoring the social milieu, as well as the current global transformations affecting people’s lives globally, conjectures in singular co-optations that isolate traits from religious dispositions have implications in how Muslim gender issues are perceived and addressed.This thesis intends to reconceptualize the Muslim woman image in an attempt to move beyond the gender polemics of cultural determinism and divide. Using narrative enquiry, the study makes a comparative analysis to discover how Muslim women in two disparate societies – Australia and Kenya are responding to the dynamics of change accelerated by globalization. Through primary research, it captures the narratives of 40 women along the axis of the two major influences on their lives - modernization and Islamization enhanced by globalization. In tracing the way global paradigms and policy changes at the macro-level have affected Muslim women and the responses produced, it provides an unconventional frame to view the lives of contemporary Muslim women.The study contends that in general, the issues facing Muslim women in the rapidly changing environment can be understood as challenges internal and external to faith orientation. On the one hand, the forces of a modern global culture offer opportunities and channels to redefine aspects of daily living and lifestyles. On the other, a resurgence of Islam manifests itself in an assertion of religious observance, cultural identity, values and morality that increasingly question these settings. The challenges are not confined to minorities in the West, but also borne by many in non-Western societies. Through its research findings, the study proposes that culture in itself is not immutable or a constant, but cultural expression is a vital part of utilizing opportunities availed by development and central to the process of development itself. As the means of comprehension without which life, lifestyles, objectives, aspirations and much more cannot be expressed, given meaning or be implemented, cultural expression is a vital aspect of human development. Accommodating these in the multicultural settings of contemporary environments is evermore salient in the globalized world.As the world becomes more interdependent, the challenges for a global society manifest in how societies organize themselves; how citizens participate and how decisions on collective issues can be more congruent to facilitate a more socially sustainable development. Through its schedule, the study attempts to provide an insight into the issues and challenges facing Muslim women in contemporary times and in the course of its findings makes a case for the value of diversity, cultural expression and a sustained representation of Muslim women within development issues.
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Amath, Nora. "The Phenomenology of Community Activism: Muslim Civil Society Organisations in Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367694.
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Muslim communities are among the least well understood in Australia. This thesis examines the emerging phenomenon of Muslim civil society organisations (MCSOs). In contrast to much publicised jihadist and radical groups, MCSOs are far more representative of Muslim communities and integral to the long-term position of Islam in Australia. Using descriptive phenomenology, this study presents the experiences of Australian Muslim civil society actors and the organisations they represent. Through 30 unstructured, in-depth interviews with 15 Australian MCSOs actors, their stories are told for the first time based on their lived experience and in their own words. In particular, this thesis explores how MCSOs have responded to the challenges of the Australian socio-political context, the perceived impact of these experiences, and how Islam is manifested within the contexts of these experiences.
The key themes which emerged from these interviews include: community building, social inclusion, the impact of 9/11 and the negotiation of identity. Importantly, based on these four major themes, the phenomenological analysis delineated that the universal essence of Australian MCSOs clearly revealed that Islam does not exist in Australia in isolation from the wider socio-political context. There is a constant, albeit under-recognised, process of negotiated exchange with Australian cultural norms, values, systems and institutions. Moreover, the findings also demonstrated that external events have brought Australian MCSOs full circle in their community building.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Humanities
Arts, Education and Law
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Othman, Zulkeplee. "Privacy, modesty, hospitality and the design of Muslim homes in Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2016. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/92619/1/Zulkeplee_Othman_Thesis.pdf.
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This cross-disciplinary, exploratory case study architectural research adopts a social science methodological approach to investigate the influence of cultural traditions and religious teachings on domestic behaviours and utilisation of interior spaces of six Muslim families' homes in Brisbane. Based on the tripartite principles of privacy, modesty and hospitality (PMH), this study acknowledges the contributions of Australian homes in providing a safe and private domain for these families to undertake daily activities while continuing their cultural and religious traditions. This research further acknowledges the significance of Australian homes to these families in the promotion of social inclusion to the wider society.
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El, Sayed Sara. "We can't all be the good Muslim hero: Intersubjective obstructions in writing Arab-Australian Muslim experience." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2021. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210972/1/Sara_El%20Sayed_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis investigates how postcolonial pressures on the Arab-Australian Muslim identity have led to the presentation of a too-unified front in Arab-Australian storytelling. By interviewing Egyptian Muslim women living in Brisbane, and as one myself, I identify what I call intersubjective obstructions, which provide opportunities for autoethnographic interrogation. I examine how Yassmin Abdel-Magied, through her memoir Yassmin’s Story, renders a Brisbane-based Arab-Australian Muslim hybrid identity. I find that post-colonial pressures can force the creation of the Good Muslim Hero narrative. Through my creative practice, I discover how I may resist or respond to those pressures in my memoir, Muddy People.
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Edries, Ahdielah. "Student and teacher-identified attitudes and needs at the Australian Islamic College." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2009. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1903.
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The Australian Islamic College is a co-educational Islamic Independent school with three campuses in Metropolitan Perth which cater for migrant students from war-torn countries and others with culturally and linguistically, diverse backgrounds. The purpose of this study was to identify the strengths and interests of Islamic students, across eight of Gardner’s intelligence domains, as perceived by the students, and to explore student and teacher attitudes and perceptions of current school practices, so that the College could better meet the needs of these students. This study is important for the Islamic Colleges because it is hoped that the study will lead to the provision of opportunities for students to increase their confidence, self-esteem and motivation, and to achieve better in academic and non-academic areas.
Data relating to the research questions were collected from three sources: (1) a survey on Student Self-Views (eight scales) (N=321); (2) Teacher Guttman Scaling questionnaires (three scales) and open-ended responses (N=32); and (3) student Focus Group Interviews (N=4X=32). The student survey data were analysed using the Rasch Unidimensional Measurement Model computer program (RUMM 2020) to create eight linear, unidimensional scales measuring Student Self-Views for the Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, English, Mathematics, Art, Music, Sport and Drama domains. The Teacher Guttman scales measured perceptions of: (1) Priority Activities Providing Links to the Western Culture; (2) General Types of Resources Needed; and (3) School Needs for Professional Areas.
The following valid inferences were drawn from the linear scales: (i) female students do not have statistically significantly higher mean measures for Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Self-Views than male students, (ii) males have statistically significantly higher Mathematical and Sports Self-Views than females; and (iii) females have significantly higher English, Art, Music, and Drama Self- Concept than males. Findings from the student interviews and teacher surveys have direct implications for staff; that is, teachers need to adapt their pedagogy to suit the multiple student needs in their classrooms, and take on a more active role in their students’ emotional well-being by enhancing the current pastoral care to include positive relations with the students’ parents. Staff should have consistent positive reinforcement and behaviour management strategies in their classrooms, collaborative learning needs to be introduced in subjects that are content-laden, and practical, ‘hands-on’ activities need to be increased in their classrooms.
The findings from the interviews and open-ended responses suggest that there is a need for the Principal to foster inclusion of shared philosophies across the entire school community (parents, teachers, students and Islamic leaders), and to review
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Eid, Mahmoud M. "Public schools or Islamic colleges? : factors impacting on parental choice of schooling for Muslim children." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2008. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/192.
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This portfolio focuses on issues associated with the education of Muslim children in Western Australia, within the broader national context. Based on ABS 1996 Census, Clyne (2001) states "there is a considerable potential demand for education within the Muslim community with at least 60 000 children within the compulsory years of schooling (5-15 years)" (pp. 118-119). However, according to the Islamic schools' principals, "approximately 10 percent of these children are enrolled in Islamic schools" (p 119). This means 90% of Muslim school children are enrolled in non-Islamic schools despite the fact that the community has 30 full time Islamic schools nation wide. At the moment, most Islamic schools are relatively small. In this respect, Buckley (1997) states: If we accept a total figure of 300,000 Muslims in Australia, and we estimate that 70% of them are school-age students, then these Muslim schools are catering for less than 2.5% of the total Muslim student population (p. 6)
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Lehane, John. "The experiences of Western Australian Muslims within the current political and social environment." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2020. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2400.
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The purpose of this research was to examine the experiences of Western Australian (WA) Muslims, within the context of the current Australian political and social climate, with a key focus on how political and social factors, and the vast introduction of Australian antiterrorism legislation, may impact them. Also explored in this inquiry, was how mainstream media and their regular portrayal of Islamic-inspired terrorist attacks, which has at times connected all Muslims to these atrocities, is creating a social division within the Australian community which is difficult to overcome.
A generic qualitative methodology was utilised to best capture the lived experiences of the participants involved in this research, which concluded that the WA Muslims interviewed had all experienced differing levels of prejudice, racism and discrimination from fellow WA residents (Non-Muslims), with a perception that western media (including social media) is largely responsible for this phenomenon.
The implications of this phenomena highlighted the need for Federal and State government to work closer with WA Muslims and to involve them more in the introduction of new anti-terrorism legislation, so that unbiased and non-discriminatory laws can be established. This thesis further highlights the need for media organisations and public figures, to accurately report on Australian Muslims and on the Islam religion itself, and not create links to Islamic-inspired atrocities occurring around Australia and the world, to all the followers of this Islamic faith.
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Nazir, Ridwaan. "Exploratory Study of High Risk Behaviours Amongst Muslim Adults Living in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/9023.
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The aim of this study was to explore a broad range of high risk behaviours amongst the Muslim community in Australia. Social supports, decision making and lifestyle factors were also investigated. Previous studies have found religiosity to be a protective factor for risk behaviours. However few studies have examined a broad variety of risk behaviours, particularly in the Muslim community. Respondents for this study included 149 adults who identified as Muslims and participated in an online survey adapted from that used by (Abbott-Chapman & Denholm, 2001; Abbott-Chapman, Denholm, & Wyld, 2008a, 2008b). The Risk Activity by Personal Risk Assessment (RAPRA) index was used to combine risk perception and risk involvement scores of 24 risk behaviours to determine risk propensity from the perspective of the participants. Weighted averages of the 24 risk behaviours were correlated with demographic data using Pearson’s correlations and one way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) tests to determine factors associated with each risk behaviour. The religiosity index which combined religious beliefs, place of worship attendance and religious importance was also correlated with weighted averages to determine if religiosity was a protective factor. Relationships between risk activities were also explored. Data on social support networks, decision making and lifestyle values were also collected. On average, behaviours involving manufactured illegal drug use were of least concern and sex without self/partner being on the pill, watching R or X rated movies, sex without a condom and speeding in a car were of highest concern. However risk propensity ranged from low to moderate across all 24 behaviours. Characteristics related to the most risks were being a male, being a parent and low religiosity which were all related to alcohol, smoking marijuana/hash and smoking cigarettes. All risk activities had significant relationships with other risk activities in the study. High religiosity was found to be protective for binge drinking, alcohol use, cigarettes, gambling, smoking marijuana/hash, snorting cocaine and taking speed/ecstasy. Muslims would seek support from their close family members and same gender friends for personal and career issues and parents were most trusted. Doctors were most relied on for health problems and teachers/educators were most relied on for study problems. When making decisions about risk, Muslims concern for safety, morality, legality and family were found to be important. Lifestyle values considered important by Muslims included self-respect, being responsible for one’s own actions, perceptions of right and wrong and respecting others. Muslims considered following rules set by religion, sharing experience with someone more experienced, seeking advice from parents and seeking advice from members of their religious community all as important when making decisions about their lifestyle. These findings provide significant data for future research in specific areas of concern in the Muslim community particularly with men and parents. This study also supports research that implies that high religiosity is effective in preventing involvement in risk activities. Religion, family and community were found to important values in the lives of Muslims and in their decision making processes.
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Farazi, Mehzabin. "Experiences of the Australian Bangladeshi Muslim Community in Family Dispute Resolution." Thesis, University of Sydney, 2020. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/23768.
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The Bangladeshi Muslim community has a very short history of migration and settlement in Australia, and hence tends to blend into the woodwork, as a silent portion of larger migrant groups, such as the Muslim community and the ‘culturally and linguistically diverse’ (CALD) community. These more vocal voices tend to speak on behalf of Bengali Muslims, and the unique Bengali Muslim identity becomes lost in the chorus. This is certainly the case in family dispute resolution. It is undeniable that crucial research on both the barriers that the CALD community faces in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution services, and on the family law and dispute resolution practices of the Australian Muslim community, relate to Bengali Muslims to some degree. However, it cannot provide a complete picture of Bengali Muslim needs, values and practices. Do they follow the same Islamic family law principles in resolving disputes as all other Muslims? Do they face the exact same barriers as all the other ethnic minorities? Or, is it reasonable to assume that their unique identity tells a different story? In an effort to tell this story, this study will take a twofold approach. Firstly, it is proposed that the CALD community is not a homogenous entity, but is composed of numerous cultural and religious groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is only one. Hence, the barriers faced by the Bangladeshi Muslim community in accessing mainstream family dispute resolution are distinct to their identity. Secondly, it is proposed that the Australian Muslim community, although religiously connected, is composed of many different cultural groups, of which the Bangladeshi Muslim community is just one. Therefore, the way this community adopts and engages with Islamic family dispute resolution processes is also distinct to its identity.
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Delahunty, Susan. "Portraits of Middle Eastern Gulf female students in Australian universities." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2013. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/585.
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This research explores the experiences and insights of ten Middle Eastern Gulf women as they cross international borders to study in Australian universities. The literature indicates that international students in Australia establish their identity within the context of their overseas existence. This is particularly important as Muslims may feel they are being placed in a precarious situation due to, more often than not, terrorism being linked to Islam. Also, when Muslim women wear Islamic or traditional attire, the general public tends to look upon them with curiosity. With this in mind, the complex and changed contexts faced by ten Middle Eastern Gulf female post-graduate students are investigated using qualitative research methods. Utilising a grounded theory approach to interpret data and identify themes from two online questionnaires and personal interviews, individual portraits are created to illuminate their experiences. The research findings reveal new knowledge indicating that education is a structured mechanism for the participants, resulting in the creation of a new hybrid self as a key instrument for survival. This enables them to better understand cultural contexts and barriers arising from class, tradition, religion and learning. The participants indicate that a two-way agreement between educators and learners is paramount to a smooth transition into the Australian education system and a positive return to their home communities.
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Schluessel, Eric T. "The Muslim Emperor of China: Everyday Politics in Colonial Xinjiang, 1877-1933." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493602.
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This dissertation concerns the ways in which a Chinese civilizing project intervened powerfully in cultural and social change in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang from the 1870s through the 1930s. I demonstrate that the efforts of officials following an ideology of domination and transformation rooted in the Chinese Classics changed the ways that people associated with each other and defined themselves and how Muslims understood their place in history and in global space. Chinese power is central to the history of modern Xinjiang and to the Uyghur people, not only because the Chinese center has dominated the area as a periphery, but because of the ways in which that power intervened in society and culture on the local level.
The processes and ramifications of the Chinese government in late-Qing and early Republican Xinjiang demonstrates strong parallels with colonialism in the context of European empire. This dissertation does not focus on the question of typology, however, but instead draws on methods from colonial history to explore the dynamics of a linguistically and religiously heterogeneous society. In order to do so, I draw on local archival documents in Chinese and Turkic and place them into dialogue with the broader Turkic-language textual record. This dissertation thus proceeds from the inception of the ideology that drove the civilizing project, through its social ramifications, to the innovations that emerged in Islamicate literature and history in Xinjiang in this period.East Asian Languages and Civilizations
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Aydemir, Cigdem. "Image and Voice: Muslim women in Contemporary Art." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/15723.
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This paper investigates the Western image of the Muslim woman in the context of contemporary art. Through my art practice I use the veiled woman cipher to reflect on personal experiences whilst broadening definitions and displacing hegemonic representations of veiling and Muslim women in an Australian cultural context. These are exemplified through autobiographical elements, parody in the Extremist Activity series, performative interventions illustrating the concept of the body as an occupied site and architectural devices that (re)create notions of inclusion, exclusion and otherness in space. From loquacious and overbearing noblewomen to helpless harem slaves awaiting rescue by her Orientalist saviours, an analysis of the development of the Muslim woman’s image throughout history reveals the shifting and contingent nature of her role in the Western imagination. Finally, an examination of current representations of Muslim women in Australian contemporary art demonstrates how these images often repeat and reinforce, rather than depart from, Orientalist and neo-Orientalist constructs.
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Ibrahim, Nada. "Intimate Partner Violence in the Australian-Muslim Community: Exploring Attitudes/Beliefs, Perpetration, and Victimisation." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365331.
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Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a significant social problem that is found in all societies and cultures, including Muslims in Australia. However, Muslims in Australia are currently under-researched on IPV related issues. Some ways of addressing this issue is by examining Australian-Muslims’ understandings of IPV, documenting prevalence rates, and applying theories that explain IPV. This thesis explores how Australian-Muslims understand the complexity of IPV, and the challenges they encounter in identifying and classifying IPV. It is the first study to explore the attitudes/beliefs of Australian-Muslims towards IPV and examine significant risk factors. It is the first study to document prevalence rates for the perpetration and victimisation of four types of IPV. It is also the first study to explore the significant risk factors of three different forms of IPV-perpetration among Australian-Muslims. The study applies a range of criminological theories to the issue of IPV among Australian-Muslims. The study employs a multi-method approach using focus groups with community-leaders, and a cross-sectional survey with a stratified random sample of respondents drawn from South-East-Queensland.
Findings from the qualitative phase of the study illustrates that there are a number of challenges encountered by Australian-Muslims in identifying IPV. Challenges include the difficulty in identifying the parameters of IPV, the restriction of IPV to physical-violence while not recognising verbal-abuse and psychological-abuse as IPV by some cultures, and the taboo of discussing marital sexual-abuse. Results also reveal some unique characteristics of IPV relevant to Australian-Muslims such as the misuse of religion to perpetuate IPV, the dominating influence of culture on IPV-beliefs and IPV-behaviours, and men’s financial responsibility vs. women’s work choices among others. Results also illustrate the diversity in definitions within the Muslim community despite their shared faith and worldviews.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
Arts, Education and Law
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van, den Heuvel Fleur H. C. M. "Muslim women in Australia and the Netherlands: A multimodal enquiry into television documentary representations." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2156.
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Almost two decades after the terrorist attacks of 11 September, the Western media continues to portray Islam and its people negatively and within the dominant knowledge and ideology of the superior West. These media representations remain largely unquestioned. Hereby the appearances of veiled Muslim women continue to be used by the media as a visual symbol confirming Islam’s difference in norms and values with the West.
Framed within the understanding that television documentaries provide audiences with ‘unscripted’ realities of both Islam and Muslim women, this research looks at representations and perceptions of how Muslim women are portrayed within two television documentaries – Halal Mate (2006) from Australia and Meiden van Halal (2005/2006) from the Netherlands. The research draws upon questions of objectivity and subjectivity which are interwoven into discussions of documentaries and their ability to portray this ‘unscripted’ reality. This includes an exploration of how such documentaries may affect viewers’ ideologies of Islam and Muslim people, in particular those of Muslim women as the ‘other’ in Western societies.
The Western media uses stereotypes of Muslim women to assist audiences in the understanding of the portrayed images. Stereotypes are used by audiences to decode both media messages and real-life experiences within a preferred reading. Positive readings of Muslim women are often overshadowed by – existing – negative readings. As evident in this research through questionnaires and focused interviews, stereotypical representations of Muslim women in the media therefore affect the understanding and perception of audiences in Australia and the Netherlands.
This research used multimodality as an overarching research methodology, supported by a mixed method approach. Firstly, a social semiotic multimodal analysis of the two television documentary series was undertaken. This provided important insights and understandings on how television documentaries are inclined to put familiar layers of Western ideologies over the depiction of Muslim women, yet how these layers do not change the communication of Western ideological and stereotypical concepts of Islam and Muslim women to audiences.
An exploratory online questionnaire was then carried out with respondents from both Australia and the Netherlands. In addition, focused interviews – and a corresponding pre-interview questionnaire – were conducted with Australian and Dutch participants to elicit comments after having watched one of the documentary episodes. Together with the results from the questionnaire and multimodal analysis, the data from the interviews were analysed and organised into three themes – the stereotypical representations of Muslim women, perceived social distance towards Muslim people and the hijab as a symbol of ‘otherness’. Data from these themes form the three findings chapters.
This research illustrates the imperfect relationship between media expressions and meaning. That is, norms and values associated with media images of Muslim women and Islam are deeply embedded in the Australian and Dutch society. However, it is noted that, if stereotypes are a matter of perception, the attributes allocated to Islam and Muslim women in Western media representations can be changed, although this will be challenging. This research project will contribute to a better understanding of and insights into the role of the media as a provider of universal and particular values related to Islam and its women for Western societies.
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Keshwani, Jyoti. "Islamophobia, nomadic subjectivity and public pedagogy: A critical ethnography of veiled Muslim women in Australia." Thesis, Keshwani, Jyoti (2021) Islamophobia, nomadic subjectivity and public pedagogy: A critical ethnography of veiled Muslim women in Australia. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2021. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/62945/.
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This critical ethnographic research investigates the experiences of veiled Muslim women (VMW) as they negotiate their identities against the backdrop of Islamophobia in Australia. It draws on the experiences of fourteen Muslim women from six countries to better understand the processes of cultural racism and its implications for subjectivity and identity formation. Drawing on their experiences of Islamophobia, the thesis aims to interrupt and demystify misunderstood and misrepresented identities related to wearing the veil/hijab.
The participants spoke about the impact of racism, stereotypes, discrimination and violence, and how social media (mis)represents their culture. Against this backdrop of ‘crisis’, the thesis seeks not only to challenge the way things are but to open up alternative public pedagogies based on the values of justice, compassion and respect.
Theoretically, the research draws on critical inquiry by employing Braidotti’s notion of ‘nomadic subjectivity’ to illuminate the lived experiences of the participants. A nomadic philosophical approach seeks to explain how identities are fragmented yet functional and evolving as they are integral and deep rooted in an individual.
Methodologically, the thesis draws on the tradition of critical ethnography to explore the experiences of VMW and their ongoing identity formation. Critical ethnography undertakes ethical responsibility of representation of the ‘other’ by addressing unfairness and injustice. This approach involved getting up close to the participants’ lives and experiences through focus groups, semi-structured interviews, participant observation and fieldnotes.
Drawing on this data, a number of emergent themes are identified, grouped under two key anchor points – crisis and hope. The notion of crisis offers a way to explain experiences of violence and intimidation, isolation and exclusion, racial profiling and stereotyping. On the other hand, experiences of hope originate from adversity, leadership actions and confidence in a better tomorrow. Hope endeavours to reclaim a sense of optimism, agency and action.
The thesis concludes by advocating a public pedagogy grounded in the principles and values of critically compassionate intellectualism. Using these ideas, the thesis advances a set of community, pedagogical and cultural practices needed to create a more inclusive society based on the values of cultural diversity, equality, democracy and social justice.
Keywords: Islamophobia, subjectivity, identity, public pedagogy, critical ethnography
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Sav, Adem. "Broadening the Scope of Work-Life Balance: Experiences of Australian Muslim Men as an Ethno-Religious Minority." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366212.
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Work-life balance is a pressing issue for the global workforce and features in much current media and academic debate. While the wealth of research in this area offers great depth and understanding, most research has been conducted in Western societies on white, English-speaking Anglo-Saxon populations. Emerging research demonstrates that cultural beliefs, values and norms can considerably influence work and non-work experiences. This thesis examines how Australian Muslim men interpret, experience and achieve work-life balance (WLB). As such, this research offers a different context to existing work-family theoretical models by demonstrating how religiosity influences balance, conflict and enhancement between work and non-work roles for Muslim men, a culturally diverse ethno-religious minority in Australia.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Public Health
Griffith Health
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Jaffer, Sadaf. "Ismat Chughtai, Progressive Literature and Formations of the Indo-Muslim Secular, 1911-1991." Thesis, Harvard University, 2015. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:23845441.
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This dissertation examines the life, work, and contexts of noted Urdu writer and Indian cultural critic Ismat Chughtai (1911-1991). By engaging in readings of Chughtai’s texts and contexts, this dissertation presents the first study of its kind, examining Indian secular thought through the lens of an Urdu literary figure. As such, this dissertation offers new perspectives on intersections between popular culture and political and religious thought in modern India through the lens of a celebrated literary figure whose legacy continues to be invoked.
I argue that, at its core, Chughtai’s critique of society hinged upon the equality (barābarī) of all Indians. The primacy of “humanity” (insāniyat) over other identities was the keystone of her formation of the secular, and has roots in a tradition that can be termed Islamicate humanism. In the first chapter, “Sacred Duty: Ismat Chughtai’s Cosmopolitan Justice between Islam and the Secular,” I argue that, by rejecting the inferior status of women within Muslim legal codes, Chughtai pursued what she saw as moral equality to a more radical degree than the postcolonial Indian state, which enshrined separate codes of personal law based on religious community. Ultimately, the secular ideals of equality, autonomy and human dignity were the mainstays of her thought, without regard to whether these were pursued through “Islamic” means. In the next chapter, “The Personal is Political: Economic and Sexual Progress in Modern India,” I argue that Chughtai, unlike other members of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, emphasized the link between hierarchical economic injustice and limitations on autonomous sexual choice. In the third chapter, “Reform, Education, and Woman as Subject,” I argue that in her writing, particularly the novel Ṭeṛhī Lakīr, Chughtai deployed narratives of education as foundational to the formation of an emancipated girl, one who liberates herself by rejecting the “old rules” (purānī qānūn). The fourth chapter, “The Many Lives of Urdu: Language, Progressive Literature and Nostalgia,” explores the fate of the Urdu language and Chughtai’s legacy in independent India. Ultimately, this project calls into question assumptions regarding what types of textual and human subjects are considered representatives of “Indo-Muslim Culture” in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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Eroglu, Sager Zeyneb Hale. "Islam in Translation: Muslim Reform and Transnational Networks in Modern China, 1908-1957." Thesis, Harvard University, 2016. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493376.
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This dissertation investigates Chinese Muslim (Hui) intellectual currents from the late Qing dynasty to the early years of the Communist Republic, 1908–1957. By analyzing a vast number of Muslim reformist journals, Chinese translations of Islamic sources, and diaries/memoirs of intellectuals who were connected to other zones of the Islamic world, I examine the process by which reformists sought to redefine Chinese Muslim identity and revive “true principles of Islam”—both in negotiation with the Chinese state and in conversation with local and transnational intellectual currents. In particular, this dissertation considers the ways in which intellectuals struggled to “awaken” Chinese Muslims so as to transform their past identity as Muslim subjects of the Qing Empire into “politically conscious and active” citizens of the Chinese Republic. Chinese Muslims were defined either as a religious community or an ethnic group (minzu), and this debate occupied the minds of reformist intellectuals in this period, the topic of the first two chapters. How it was settled would determine the political, social, and religious status of the Muslim community in China, where definitions of nation and ethnicity/race were constantly reassigned. Debates concerning Muslim integration into China hinged on their connection to the global Muslim community (umma). Newly introduced technologies of travel and communication, such as the steamship and print, facilitated Chinese Muslims’ participation within transnational and cross-confessional networks. I argue that it was through the selection, appropriation, and adaptation of ideas from the prominent centers of the Islamic world that these intellectuals navigated a path of integration in the Chinese context that did not put their distinct Muslim identity at risk. From these diverse sources, they were determined to find solutions to the challenges they faced in China—whether posed by the hegemonic discourse of the Nationalist Party or the iconoclastic New Culture Movement. In successive chapters, I focus on the intellectual connection of Chinese Muslims to the Kemalist secularism of Turkey, the Ahmadi movement of India, and Egyptian reformist currents. Thus, I demonstrate how a seemingly “peripheral” Muslim community in the Far East participated in complex transnational networks at a critical moment of transformation.Inner Asian and Altaic Studies
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Ghafournia, Nafiseh. "‘Like hands under a rock’ A feminist intersectional analysis of Muslim immigrant women’s experiences of domestic violence in Australia." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/16315.
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Violence against women has pervasive and traumatic effects on all women’s lives. For victims from immigrant backgrounds, the situation can often be more complex. While there is a growing literature that reflects this complexity, much remains unknown about the experiences of abused immigrant women in Australia from particular backgrounds. This lack of knowledge may contribute to the perpetuation of stereotypes or generalisations about these groups of women, their cultures and their religions. The purpose of the thesis is to contribute to knowledge about the specificities of Muslim immigrant women’s experiences in Australia. In particular, it aims to contribute to understandings of the intersections of gender, culture, religion and immigration, and the ways in which different social locations interact in Muslim immigrant women’s experiences of abuse. The thesis also aims to consider the implications of feminist intersectional perspectives for service provision, social work education and policy. The thesis involved a study of fourteen Muslim immigrant women living in Sydney and Newcastle who had current, recent or previous experiences of domestic violence. The study involved in-depth, semi-structured interviews. Participants, who were from different ethnic, national and linguistic backgrounds, provided detailed narratives of their lives and relationships, enabling an analysis of their perceptions of domestic violence, their experiences of domestic violence and their responses to domestic violence. The study found that the women’s accounts of domestic violence to some extent are similar to extant accounts of mainstream women. However, there were some differences. Firstly, immigration-related factors act as stressors to exacerbate the abuse. Secondly, the women in the study identified ‘culture’ as a key factor in their experiences of domestic violence. Despite being from different ethnic backgrounds, certain common cultural beliefs were identified as barriers to responding to domestic violence. However, culture was also described as a source of empowerment for the women in the study. Thirdly, the women explained that gender arrangements and gender role expectations are implicated: these were seen as exploited by abusive partners to control the participants. Fourthly, the women viewed spirituality and religion as a significant dimension that provided strength and resilience. Both were perceived by the women to be empowering rather than barriers. In the context of immigrant women, culture, religion and gender intersect, reinforce and regenerate each other. The thesis demonstrates the importance of attention to intersecting categories in producing meanings and experiences of domestic violence. In sum, the study attempts to go beyond a simple portrayal of the women as one-dimensional individuals but as women with a diverse range of backgrounds, histories, opinions and resources. By breaking their silence and sharing their sufferings, these women wished to contribute something that would bring about a change in the lives of all abused immigrant women in Australia.
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Rida, A. "Non English speaking background migrant Muslim women and migrant English language provision." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 1996. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/945.
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The purpose of this study is to define and delineate the factors which influence the decision by non-English speaking background migrant Muslim women to access or not access their eligibility for English language tuition, as set out by current policies governing the eligibility of migrants to participate in Adult Migrant Education programs. As such, the study is of particular interest to both key informants: teachers, community workers, coordinators, and to the target population themselves-Migrant Muslim women. It is also of benefit to those who are concerned with implementing language programs as it will provide them with an understanding of the issues facing Muslim women that may prevent them from accessing such classes. It is also of particular interest because it delves into and explores an• area where much speculation has taken place, but where little research of significance has been directed. The target population is defined as adult (over age 16) Muslim women from a non-English speaking background who are currently residing in the Perth metropolitan area. Two groups within this target population have been included in the study, the first being those women who have accessed migrant language tuition in a formal class setting (excluding those who have accessed the home tutor scheme). The second being those women who have not, with the objective of drawing a typology of the kind of Muslim women accessing classes-age, country of birth, family, socio-economic status, perceived need to learn English, level of education and aspirations and other relevant variables that were brought to light through the research process. Data was collected using both quantitative and qualitative research methods which involved the analysis of figures pertaining to the numbers of women from Muslim countries of birth who have accessed English language classes through the Adult Migrant Education Program in order to arrive at conclusions about the relative absence of Muslim women in these programs. Qualitative data was collected using a structured interview with twenty three women from the target population as well as interviews with three key informants. The purpose of the key informant interviews was to gain an understanding of the external factors accessibility, availability of information and practical considerations such as child care transport and provision of special arrangements that may affect the decision or the ability of Muslim women to attend classes.
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Furgason, Darrell Alan. "Examining Westernisation and secularisation : a study of cultural and religious change among Muslim university students in Canberra and Sydney." Thesis, Department of Studies in Religion, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/5347.
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Gibbons, Nadine Elizabeth. "The effect of September 11, 2001 and subsequent terrorist events upon Australian public libraries' policies, and collections and services to Muslim clients." Thesis, Curtin University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/54165.
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This research addresses the responses by the Australian library profession to the series of national and international terrorism events that commenced with the attacks on the United States on September 11th 2001. It specifically investigates the response of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) in the light of changes to Commonwealth Government policies and legislation, and the subsequent impacts on the policy environment in which Australian public libraries operated, and their delivery of collections and services to Muslim clients.
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Bull-McMahon, Aimee. "“Say no to burqas”: geographies of nation and citizenship in Newtown." Thesis, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/8863.
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This thesis is concerned with the ways in which instances of everyday racism reproduce geographies of national belonging and exclusion in the city, focusing specifically on an activist campaign in Newtown, Australia, which called on the community to ‘Say no to burqas’. The focal point of this one-man campaign was a large, street facing mural, depicting a veiled woman, crossed out inside a red circle. The mural attracted much community opposition, and was defaced over sixty-four times. This thesis deconstructs the ways in which the mural campaign inscribed a particular national imaginary onto Newtown, constituted through the exclusion of the Muslim other; attending to the roots of this imaginary in racialised and gendered regimes of citizenship which privilege white, liberal civility. It goes on to show how the mural both reproduced, and was implicated in, the classed geographies of Australian multiculturalism, which figure the inner city as diverse and cosmopolitan, in opposition to the suburban as a site of ethnic criminality and multicultural failure. Finally, this thesis looks to various instances of organised opposition to the mural as examples of insurgent citizenship, capable of reimagining the relationship between place, nation and political community, in response to the ethical, political and practical task of living together in the multicultural city.
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Hussein, Abdul-Kadir. "An examination of the care provided to Arab Muslim clients with type 2 diabetes receiving health care in Australia in order to expand our understanding of culturally congruent care." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/13143.
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This study aims to examine the nature of existing culture care for Arabic speaking Muslim clients with type 2 diabetes receiving care in Australia. This study has adopted and adaptation of Leininger’s ethnonursing research method to examine the extent to which existing models of culture care are put into practice by diabetes educators and the clients response to this care in the context of diabetic clinics/ centres in South Western Sydney. Data was collected over a seven months period where the researcher was embedded in a number of Diabetic Clinics around South Western Sydney. Data was gathered from field notes taken after participant observations, and interviews with both the clients and the educators. Twenty one informants (13 diabetes educators and 8 Arab Muslim clients) participated in the study. The study sites were five diabetes centres from two area health services in Sydney NSW. The research describes the activities of the educators within their culture care practice. The research reports life experiences of clients which may act as barriers to successful care. The data reveals that occasions of mutual reflection between the client and the educator have a profound effect on the nature of client-educator relationship and health care outcomes.
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Behrouzinia, Tahmoores. "The socio-demographic characteristics of Muslim communities in Australia, 1981-96 / by Tahmoores Behrouzinia." Thesis, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/21770.
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This study contributes to the limited body of knowledge regarding Muslim settlement in Australia by elucidating the processes of contemporary settlement and adjustment of Muslim groups in Australia and assessing the role and significance of religion (Islam) in those processes. It focuses on the cultural, economic, social and demographic adjustments of these groups to Australian society and explores the role of Islam in the adjustment.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Geographical and Environmental Studies, 2002
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Wadeisa, Ghada. "The caliph, the imam and the mates." Phd thesis, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/150988.
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Despite the fact that Muslims in Australia are the third largest group, surprisingly, analyses of the role of religion in Australian Muslim communities are rare. Studies of Muslims in Australia focuses either on their settlement needs, such as housing and employment, or examine them as part of the larger group of immigrants from Non-English Speaking Backgrounds (NESBs). In either case, the settlement needs of African Muslims, especially from the Horn and North Africa, have been essentially discussed in terms of their ethnic, rather than religious, origins. These studies, while providing much needed information about African Muslims in Australia, fail to consider the role of religion in identity formation and the differences between first and second generation immigrants. The importance of this thesis is that it considers the importance of the religion in the formation of the members of the focus group's identity and how it affected their integration process. It explores how religious identities can be constructed, maintained and enacted, particularly by second-generation immigrants attempting to reconcile multiple, sometimes conflicting, forms of identity. To understand the role of theology in the identity formation and the integration process of my respondents, this thesis employed three methods: first, an analysis of Islamic theology on the residency of Muslims in non-Islamic societies, using Islamic texts and a number of the most important Islamic websites; second, a textual analysis of a number of Islamic websites; and, finally, an empirical analysis of the views of the first and second generation Muslim North Africans, utilizing focus groups and interviews. The data presented here indicates that the integration patterns of the second generation, either born or brought up in Australia, is different from the first generation group. The first generation seems to be more willing to integrate into, and adapt to, their host community through their attempts to establish friendships and local interactions with neighbours and participating in different national and religious activities. On the other hand, although the second generation is de facto more integrable in the society, because of their language skills and employment rates, they are less happy about cultural integration. This reluctance results from their views of Islam, shaped by two important factors: the way they have been brought up; and their interaction with cyber Islam. The result of the interaction between these two factors is a confusing and multi-layered identity within this generation that has led them to look for a new form of universal identity, different from both their parents and the their host community. It is a religious identity. Obviously, the research results presented in this thesis cannot be generalized to the identity formation process of all Muslim Australians, nor is religion as a declared identity likely to be the final phase of what will continue to be a complex process of identity negotiation and evolution for these young Muslims.
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Mahmoudian, Hossein. "Migration and change in Muslim fertility in Australia." Phd thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/145979.
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Batainah, Heba. "The politics of belonging in Australia : multiculturalism, citizenship and Islamophobia." Phd thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/117180.
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In the decade since the events of 9/11, Muslims and Islam came to act as symbols for the putative correlation between immigration and the erosion of social cohesion in a number of Western countries, including Australia. Increasingly, immigrant integration was believed to be key to the maintenance of social cohesion and individual immigrant integration was seen as the main factor in successful integration. The Howard Government distanced itself from multicultural policies by rejecting group identities for 'ethnic' minorities, while, conversely, strengthening group identity in terms of nationalism and citizenship. Following other Western societies, the integration of Muslims in Australia became characterised as a security imperative and the responsibilities of Muslim citizens increasingly became embedded within the discourse of terrorism, where Muslim citizens are simultaneously suspected as potential terrorists and encouraged to act as community watchdogs. Politicians also came to see terrorism as something harboured within Islamic communities in Australia and Muslim lack of belonging came to be viewed as having 'cultural' and 'religious' underpinnings. As a result of the securitisation of Islam and the view that Islam and Muslims are problematic, all Muslims were characterised as potential terrorists and negative ideas and actions toward Muslims, what some have called 'Islamophobia', were normalised and justified. There has, however, been remarkably little systematic attempt to examine any continuity between broader understandings of the official definitions of belonging and how and why Muslims are viewed as incapable of belonging. This research demonstrates the links between ideas about the 'Other' and their place in Australian society and how these ideas give meaning to the ways Muslims and Islam are thought not to belong. The focus on Muslim Australians as refusing integration and challenging Australia's national identity is contextualised within the wider framework of Australian national identity, immigration policies (entry, settlement and citizenship) and the wider prevalence of 'Islamophobia' in Australia. This dissertation explicitly politicises the concept of belonging in order to demonstrate the social and political barriers to belonging for Muslim Australians. This dissertation uses Allen's (2010) concept of 'Islamophobia as ideology' to empirically examine discourses about Islam and Muslims in the House of Representatives (2000-2006). The findings indicate that deeply-entrenched views about who belongs (and who does not), and how they belong in Australia, informed parliamentary discourse on Muslims and Islam. Islamophobia in the Australian House of Representatives demonstrates the ways in which discourses about the 'Other' are systematically used to strengthen negative meaning about Islam and Muslims and to consistently present them as anathema to everything 'Australian'.
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Mohammadi, Nooredin. "A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of Muslim patients in Australian hospitals." 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/47562.
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In the past few years, many people with an Islamic background have settled in Australia. Within the health care context, this means that health care providers must modify the care provided to ensure it meets the needs of this culturally diverse population. Little nursing research has focused on understanding the perceptions and experiences of Muslim people within health care systems, particularly in Australia. This study provided an opportunity to explore, and document the experience of the hospitalisation for Islamic people and thereby advance the available information upon which important nursing care decisions that relate to this group can be more informatively made. This study aims to explore and interpret the lived experience of thirteen Muslim patients who had been hospitalised in an Australian hospital. The hermeneutic phenomenology of Heidegger (1967/1996), the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer (1989), and the ideas of van Manen (1990/1996) underpin this study. The meaning and understanding of the everyday experience of Muslim patient in a non-Islamic hospital is achieved through interpretation of the participants’ stories. Data were generated using unstructured audio-taped interviews from participants. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed, then interpreted using phenomenological methods. The two themes to emerge from the participants’ experiences are: Being-thrown-into-an-un-everyday-world and living-Islam-in-the-un-everyday-world. The theme of Being-thrown-into-an-un-everyday-world arose from the sub-themes of the awareness of self and Being an outsider. The theme living-Islam-in-the-un-everyday-world was drawn from the three sub-themes of Being the same and different, hindrances to being Muslim, and adapting-to-the-un-everyday-world. The findings of this study provide an insight into the experience of Muslims being cared for in Australian hospitals. It is hoped that this interpretation will make a significant contribution to the care of Muslim patients by having health professionals consider how this group could be cared for in a culturally sensitive manner. It is not intended as a prescription for care but draws the reader to reflect on aspects of the Muslim faith and how this may impact on individuals experience when in hospital. The scope of this study and the dearth of available research in this area conclude that much more research needs to be undertaken.http://proxy.library.adelaide.edu.au/login?url= http://library.adelaide.edu.au/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=1317115
Thesis(Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, 2008
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Mohammadi, Nooredin. "A hermeneutic phenomenological inquiry into the lived experience of Muslim patients in Australian hospitals." Thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/47562.
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In the past few years, many people with an Islamic background have settled in Australia. Within the health care context, this means that health care providers must modify the care provided to ensure it meets the needs of this culturally diverse population. Little nursing research has focused on understanding the perceptions and experiences of Muslim people within health care systems, particularly in Australia. This study provided an opportunity to explore, and document the experience of the hospitalisation for Islamic people and thereby advance the available information upon which important nursing care decisions that relate to this group can be more informatively made.
This study aims to explore and interpret the lived experience of thirteen Muslim patients who had been hospitalised in an Australian hospital. The hermeneutic phenomenology of Heidegger (1967/1996), the philosophical hermeneutics of Gadamer (1989), and the ideas of van Manen (1990/1996) underpin this study. The meaning and understanding of the everyday experience of Muslim patient in a non-Islamic hospital is achieved through interpretation of the participants’ stories. Data were generated using unstructured audio-taped interviews from participants. The interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed, then interpreted using phenomenological methods.
The two themes to emerge from the participants’ experiences are: Being-thrown-into-an-un-everyday-world and living-Islam-in-the-un-everyday-world. The theme of Being-thrown-into-an-un-everyday-world arose from the sub-themes of the awareness of self and Being an outsider. The theme living-Islam-in-the-un-everyday-world was drawn from the three sub-themes of Being the same and different, hindrances to being Muslim, and adapting-to-the-un-everyday-world. The findings of this study provide an insight into the experience of Muslims being cared for in Australian hospitals. It is hoped that this interpretation will make a significant contribution to the care of Muslim patients by having health professionals consider how this group could be cared for in a culturally sensitive manner. It is not intended as a prescription for care but draws the reader to reflect on aspects of the Muslim faith and how this may impact on individuals experience when in hospital. The scope of this study and the dearth of available research in this area conclude that much more research needs to be undertaken.Thesis(Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Population Health and Clinical Practice, 2008