'Non-Muslim' and Muslim youth: religious identities, Islamophobia and everyday geopolitics

尽管研究已经引起了人们对伊斯兰恐惧症现象的关注，但关于伊斯兰恐惧症如何影响可能被误认为是穆斯林的非穆斯林少数民族年轻人的生活，以及这与他们对那些隶属于伊斯兰信仰的人的感情之间的关系，很少有人说过。这项研究的独特之处在于将这一类别的年轻人纳入研究重点。这个新颖的项目有四个相互关联的目标：1.探索伊斯兰恐惧症问题与苏格兰非穆斯林和穆斯林青年(12-25岁)的经历有关，他们因为看起来像穆斯林而成为攻击目标，并解释不同宗教、种族和少数民族青年如何经历和理解伊斯兰恐惧症，以及这对社区关系、社会凝聚力和融合的影响。2.在考虑到族裔与宗教、性别、社会阶层和所在地等其他相关立场的交叉性的框架内分析这些经验3.详细说明年轻人如何理解和谈判“日常地缘政治”。我们用“日常地缘政治”这个术语来指代国际、国家、州和地方政治问题如何影响人们的日常生活，以及如何被这些问题所影响。4.使两极分化的言论产生问题，这些言论认为年轻人要么在政治上不参与，要么冷漠，要么在政治上激进和极端。这个项目的重点是那些可能经常成为伊斯兰恐惧症目标的群体。到目前为止，几乎没有关于这一主题或地缘政治事件对英国或苏格兰年轻人的宗教和文化认同的影响的研究。我们将征询的群体包括：-‘非穆斯林’亚洲人；-寻求庇护者和难民；-东欧移民；-国际学生；-穆斯林。15次小组讨论(每组3次)和150次个别访谈将使我们能够生成大量定性数据语料库，以回答上述确定的研究问题。这些参与者将来自三个地理背景，包括城市地区、城市/半城市地区和农村地区，以便我们能够评估当地在他们经历和应对伊斯兰恐惧症方面所起的作用。这项研究的结果将通过6篇同行评议的国际期刊文章和6个相关的会议报告向学术用户群体传播。为了最大限度地扩大影响，我们的目标是通过一份政策文件和两个政策研讨会、一个学术研讨会、一系列三个地区性社区会议、四篇通用语言文章和一个项目网站，建立我们在地方/国家政府、志愿组织和社区组织中的广泛联系。我们五年级(但没有资金)申请的主要变化是增加了一个学术研讨会(另请参阅学术受益者部分)，并澄清了我们对“地缘政治”一词的使用。

Although research has drawn attention to the phenomenon of Islamophobia, very little has been said about how Islamophobia influences the lives of 'non-Muslim' minority ethnic young people who might be mistaken for being Muslim and how this relates to their feelings about those who affiliate with the Islamic faith. The unique aspect of this study is the inclusion of this category of young people as a focus of research. This novel project has four interrelated aims:1. To explore the issue of Islamophobia in relation to the experiences of 'non-Muslim' and Muslim youths (aged 12-25) in Scotland who are targeted because they look Muslim, and to explain how different religious, ethnic and minoritised youth experience and understand Islamophobia, the impact of this on community relations, social cohesion and integration. 2. To analyse these experiences within a framework that takes cognisance of the intersectionality of ethnicity with other relevant positionalities such as religion, gender, social class and locality 3. To detail how young people understand and negotiate 'everyday geopolitics'. We use the term 'everyday geopolitics' to refer to the ways in which international, national, state and local political issues shape, and are shaped by, people's everyday lives. 4. To problematise polarised discourses which see young people as either politically disengaged and apathetic or politically radicalised and extreme.This project focuses on groups who may often be the targets of Islamophobia. To date there has been little if any research on this topic or the impact of geopolitical events on their religious and cultural identities of young people in the UK or in Scotland. The groups we will consult are: - 'non-Muslim' Asian people; - asylum-seekers and refugees; - Eastern European migrants; - international students; - and Muslims. A series of 15 group discussions (three with each of these groups) and 150 individual interviews will enable us to generate a substantial corpus of qualitative data in order to answer the research questions identified above. These participants will be drawn from three geographical contexts including urban areas, urban/semi-urban areas and rural areas in order for us to be able to assess the role locality has in their experiences of, and responses to, Islamophobia. The findings of the research will be disseminated to academic user-groups through 6 peer-reviewed international journal articles and six linked conference presentations. In order to maximise impact, we aim to build upon our extensive contacts in local/national government and voluntary and community organisations through a policy paper and two policy workshops, an academic workshop, a series of three regional community conferences, four common-language articles and a project website.The main change here from our grade 5 (but unfunded) application is the addition of an academic workshop (see also academic beneficiaries section) and clarification of our use of the term 'geopolitics'.