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Being Arab: Ethnic and Religious Identity Building Among Second Generation Youth in Montreal
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Being Arab: Ethnic and Religious Identity Building Among Second Generation Youth in Montreal
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| Abstract |
Focusing on the experiences of students from five CEGEPs in Montreal, the author explores how Muslim and Christian Arab-Canadian youth negotiate their ethnic and religious identities. 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.
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Montreal and Kingston
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McGill-Queen’s University Press
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2007
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en
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Eid, Paul. Being Arab: Ethnic and Religious Identity Building Among Second Generation Youth in Montreal. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2007.
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