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Importance Of Ethnicity: Differences In Reported Discrimination Towards Muslim Students, Sameera Ahmed, Wahiba Abu-Ras, Cynthia Arfken
Importance Of Ethnicity: Differences In Reported Discrimination Towards Muslim Students, Sameera Ahmed, Wahiba Abu-Ras, Cynthia Arfken
International Symposium on Arab Youth
Numerous studies have reported on the negative impact of perceived discrimination on health of Arabs and Muslims (Ahmed, Kia-Keating, Tsai, 2011; Rippy & Neuman, 2006). However, it is unknown if discrimination is experienced at similar rates among co-religionists. To date, there have been no studies exploring perceived discriminatory experiences of Muslims by ethnicity. This study assumes that Arab Muslim student will report similar recent discriminatory experiences compared to other non-Arab Muslim students.
Respondent-driven sampling was used to recruit self-identified 156 Muslim under-graduates to complete a web-based survey (2010-11) at one large U.S. urban commuter university. Arab Muslim student (N=55) were …