Between Islam and the American Dream - An Immigrant Muslim Community in Post-9/11 America

Summary

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigrants from diverse backgrounds negotiate multiple identities while seeking to become part of American society in the years following 9/11.

Product details

• Authors: Yuting Wang, Wang Yuting
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.12.2013
• EAN: 9780415711937
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71193-7
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islamic Studies, Migration, immigration & emigration, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples