Ethnic and Religious Identity Retention among Second-Generation Arab Youths in Montreal

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Ethnic and Religious Identity Retention among Second-Generation Arab Youths in Montreal
Abstract
The author examines the relationship between ethnic and religious identity retention among Arab-origin students from five CEGEPs in Montreal. The author pays special attention to the influence of three socio-cultural factors: parental socialization, gender-related traditionalism, and perceived discrimination and stereotyping. He examines how group boundaries among the second generation emerge from re-appropriations of pre-fabricated ethnic labels and identities. He argues that although these youths identify strongly with their ethnic culture and community, nonetheless, they fail to show matching levels of enmeshment in ethnic-based socialization networks. He also found that religion is more experienced by these youths as a group boundary marker, than as a binding frame of religious prescriptions and rituals. His data strongly suggest that religion and ethnicity are intertwined within these youths' identity structure.
Type
PhD dissertation
University
University of Toronto
Place
Toronto, ON
Date
2002
Language
en
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Citation
Eid, Paul. “Ethnic and Religious Identity Retention among Second-Generation Arab Youths in Montreal.” PhD dissertation, University of Toronto, 2002. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk4/etd/NQ74781.PDF.
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