Religiosity as an Identity: Young Arab Muslim Women in the United States and France

2015 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle Dunand Zimmerman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arab Muslim

scholarly journals Conflict Behavior in the Workplace: A Study of Second Generation Arab Muslim Immigrants in the United States

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Jamil Al Wekhian
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Conflict Management ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Conflict Behavior ◽  
Management Styles ◽  
Conflict Management Styles ◽  
Muslim Immigrants ◽  
Arab Muslim

Multiple studies have shown that culture, religiosity, and gender influence people’s behavior in managing their conflict; however, there has been little investigation of the impact of the acculturation process on these variables utilized by second generation Arab Muslim immigrants in the United States. My study follows a sequential explanatory model with a mixed methods approach, and specifically explores the conflict management styles utilized by second generation Arab Muslim immigrants in the U.S. and how their culture, gender, and religiosity contribute to these processes. Data was collected by conducting 112 online surveys and 12 face-to-face semi-structured interviews, with the sample population stemming from the Arab Muslim communities in Columbia, Kansas City, and St. Louis, Missouri. Binary logistic regression and Chi-square tests were used to analyze this quantitative data through SPSS while thematic analysis was used to analyze the qualitative data. The resulting analysis showed that second generation immigrants tended to be more individualistic, have a lower level of religiosity, and utilize and utilize dominating as a conflict management style to handle their interpersonal conflict. Level of religiosity had a significant relationship with the obliging, compromising, integrating, avoiding, and dominating conflict management styles. Gender had a significant association with the obliging, compromising, avoiding, and dominating conflict management styles. Finally, culture had a significant predictive relationship with obliging, integrating, compromising, and dominating conflict management styles.

Being Muslim

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Chan-Malik
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
African American ◽  
African American Women ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Women Of Color ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Protest ◽  
Gender Justice ◽  
American Islam

Being U.S. Muslims: A Cultural History of Women of Color and American Islam offers a previously untold story of Islam in the United States that foregrounds the voices, experiences, and images of women of color in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present. Until the late 1960s, the majority of Muslim women in the U.S.—as well as almost all U.S. Muslim women who appeared in the American press or popular culture, were African American. Thus, the book contends that the lives and labors of African American Muslim women have—and continue to—forcefully shaped the meanings and presence of American Islam, and are critical to approaching issues confronting Muslim women in the contemporary U.S. At the heart of U.S. Muslim women’s encounters with Islam, the volume demonstrates, is a desire for gender justice that is rooted in how issues of race and religion have shaped women’s daily lives. Women of color’s ways of “being U.S. Muslims” have been consistently forged against commonsense notions of racial, gendered, and religious belonging and citizenship. From narratives of African American women who engage Islam as a form of social protest, through intersections of “Islam” and “feminism” in the media, and into contemporary expressions of racial and gender justice in U.S. Muslim communities, Being U.S. Muslims demonstrates that it is this continual againstness— which the book names affective insurgency—that is the central hall marks of U.S. Muslim women’s lives.

scholarly journals Impact of Intersectionality on Muslim Women in Workplace Settings in Anchorage, Alaska

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zayn Cheema
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The United States ◽  
Workplace Discrimination ◽  
Minority Populations ◽  
Strongly Correlated ◽  
Workplace Satisfaction ◽  
Stress Scale ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Women In Workplace

Given the complexities of identity for Muslim women in the United States, they are frequently negatively impacted in workplace settings. This study’s purpose was to examine how intersectional aspects of identity were correlated with the experiences of Muslim women in workplace settings in Anchorage, Alaska. The study utilized a quantitative correlational research method, which involved the usage of an index-driven survey which consisted of data derived from demographic studies, the MacArthur Subjective Social Status Scale, the Workplace Prejudice/Discrimination Inventory and the Workplace Satisfaction/Stress Scale. The study found that ethnicity and workplace discrimination were strongly correlated, while other correlations were not found to be statistically significant. Based on the gaps in knowledge in the current body of research, these findings could support a greater investment in research regarding minority populations in rural and conservative areas in the United States.   

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