Linguistic Minority Community

While the “situatedness” of occupation in the context of migration has been explored using various approaches, there remains a need for a holistic and dynamic understanding of the concept of space and the spatiality of occupation. Adopting Lefebvre’s theory of the production of space and taking a transactional approach to occupation, we examined the role of immigrants’ occupational engagement in the production of Francophone minority community spaces in Metro Vancouver, Canada. We completed a critical ethnography and focus on findings from participant observations and in-depth and go-along interviews with French-speaking immigrants. Findings shed light on the influence of immigrants’ occupational engagement on the production of minority spaces. To study the spatiality of occupation comprehensively, we need to move beyond an examination of the immediate environment to address other components of the production of space as well as the interrelation of spaces through occupation.

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Inequality in the Promised Land

Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Education ◽

10.32674/jise.v9i1.1703 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 177-180

Author(s):

Muhammad Sharif Uddin

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Minority Students ◽

Doctoral Dissertation ◽

Ethnographic Study ◽

Suburban Area ◽

Midwestern United States ◽

Minority Community ◽

Promised Land ◽

Land Race ◽

The Relationship

Inequality in the promised land: Race, resources, and suburban schooling is a well-written book by L’ Heureux Lewis-McCoy. The book is based on Lewis-McCoy’s doctoral dissertation, that included an ethnographic study in a suburban area named Rolling Acres in the Midwestern United States. Lewis-McCoy studied the relationship between families and those families’ relationships with schools. Through this study, the author explored how invisible inequality and racism in an affluent suburban area became the barrier for racial and economically minority students to grow up academically. Lewis-McCoy also discovered the hope of the minority community for raising their children for a better future.

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#ChinaMustexplain: Global Tweets, COVID-19, and Anti-Black Racism in China

The Review of Black Political Economy ◽

10.1177/0034644621992687 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 003464462199268

Author(s):

Anwar Ouassini ◽

Mostafa Amini ◽

Nabil Ouassini

Keyword(s):

Black Community ◽

Latent Dirichlet Allocation ◽

Ethnic Disparities ◽

Chinese Government ◽

Global Response ◽

Minority Community ◽

Racial Ideologies ◽

Racial Projects ◽

Physical Presence ◽

History Of

One of the consequences of the emergence of COVID-19 has been the glaring racial and ethnic disparities that have defined the course of the spread of the virus. As a recent migrant-minority community in China, the Black community’s experience has been defined by vulgar racism, exploitation, and stigmatization. In the context of COVID-19, the Black community in China was again a target of multiple racial projects which sought to label their bodies as diseased and physical presence as a threat to the viability and safety of the Han majority. The global response was to mobilize online to expose how the Chinese government is systematically facilitating discriminatory policies against Black migrants in China. In the present paper, we explore how Twitter was utilized to mobilize awareness about anti-Black racism in China. We first present a brief history of African migration to China and then discuss the Han racial ideologies that are inspiring the anti-Black racism. We then use latent Dirichlet allocation as a topic modeling algorithm to extract underlying themes to discuss how anti-Black racism in the COVID-19 context was framed and subsequently challenged by the global community. Finally, we conclude with a brief discussion on COVID-19 and the future of the Black community in China.

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An Intimate Yet Anglo-Centric Account of a Renaissance Human Rights Man

Israel Law Review ◽

10.1017/s0021223720000242 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (1) ◽

pp. 120-134

Author(s):

Dilek Kurban

Keyword(s):

Human Rights ◽

Civil Rights ◽

Civil Rights Movement ◽

Social Inequalities ◽

Political Conflict ◽

Power Dynamics ◽

Legal Scholar ◽

Minority Community ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

The Social

In his well-researched biography, Mike Chinoy chronicles Kevin Boyle's life and career as a scholar, activist and lawyer, bringing to light his under-appreciated role in the civil rights movement in Northern Ireland and the efforts to find a peaceful solution to the conflict, as well as his contributions to human rights movements in the United Kingdom, Europe and the world. Are You With Me? is an important contribution to the literature on the actors who have shaped the norms, institutions and operations of human rights. In its efforts to shed light on one man, the book offers a fresh alternative to state-centric accounts of the origins of human rights. The book offers a portrait of a social movement actor turned legal scholar who used the law to contest the social inequalities against the minority community to which he belonged and to push for a solution to the underlying political conflict, as well as revelations of the complex power dynamics between human rights lawyers and the social movements they represent. In these respects Are You With Me? also provides valuable insights for socio-legal scholars, especially those focusing on legal mobilisation. At the same time the book could have provided a fuller and more complex biographical account had Chinoy been geographically and linguistically comprehensive in selecting his interviewees. The exclusion of Kurdish lawyers and human rights advocates is noticeable, particularly in light of the inclusion of Boyle's local partners in other contexts, such as South Africa.

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How Other Minorities Gained Access: The War on Poverty and Asian American and Latino Community Organizing

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/1065912920983456 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 106591292098345

Author(s):

Jae Yeon Kim

Keyword(s):

Asian Americans ◽

Asian American ◽

Community Organizing ◽

War On Poverty ◽

Advocacy Organizations ◽

Minority Community ◽

Original Dataset ◽

Community Organizers ◽

1960S And 1970S ◽

The 1960S

In the early twentieth century, Asian Americans and Latinos organized along national origin lines and focused on assimilation; By the 1960s and 1970s, community organizers from both groups began to form panethnic community service organizations (CSOs) that emphasized solidarity. I argue that focusing on the rise of panethnic CSOs reveals an underappreciated mechanism that has mobilized Asian Americans and Latinos—the welfare state. The War on Poverty programs incentivized non-black minority community organizers to form panethnic CSOs to gain access to state resources and serve the economically disadvantaged in their communities. Drawing on extensive archival research, I identify this mechanism and test it with my original dataset of 818 Asian American and Latino advocacy organizations and CSOs. Leveraging the Reagan budget cut, I show that dismantling the War on Poverty programs reduced the founding rate of panethnic CSOs. I further estimated that a 1 percent increase in federal funding was associated with the increase of the two panethnic CSOs during the War on Poverty. The findings demonstrate how access to state resources forces activists among non-primary beneficiary groups to build new political identities that fit the dominant image of the policy beneficiaries.

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Muslim Personal Laws and the Accommodation of Minorities: The Need to Better Balance Individual Rights and Group Autonomy in Singapore

German Law Journal ◽

10.1017/glj.2019.71 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 20 (7) ◽

pp. 1079-1095

Author(s):

Noor Aisha Abdul Rahman

Keyword(s):

Legal System ◽

Well Being ◽

The State ◽

Political Issues ◽

Minority Community ◽

Muslim Minority ◽

The Right ◽

Personal Law ◽

Muslim Minorities ◽

Direct Incorporation

AbstractThe accommodation of religious personal law systems is an issue that has arisen in many countries with significant Muslim minorities. The types of accommodations can range from direct incorporation into the state legal system to mere recognition of religious tribunals as private organs. Different forms of accommodation raise different types of legal, social, and political issues. Focusing on the case of Singapore, I examine one form of accommodation which entails the direct incorporation of this law regulating marriage, divorce, and inheritance for Muslims into the state system. Administered by the Administration of the Muslim Law Act, 1966, the Muslim law binds Muslims unless they abjure Islam. The resulting pluralistic legal system is deemed necessary to realize the aspirations of and give respect to the Muslim minority community, the majority of whom are constitutionally acknowledged as indigenous to the country. This Article examines the ramifications of this arrangement on the rights and well-being of members of this community in the context of change. It argues that, while giving autonomy to the community to determine its personal law and advancing group accommodation, the arrangement denies individuals the right to their choice of law, a problem exacerbated by traditionalism and the lack of democratic process in this domain. Consequently, the Muslim law pales in comparison to the civil law for non-Muslims. The rise of religious resurgence since the 1970s has but compounded the problem. How the system can accommodate the Muslim personal law without compromising the rights of individual Muslims is also discussed.

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