Young Muslims' Experiences of Islamophobia, Education and Social Mobility

日益严重的社会经济不平等仍然是英国公众关注的一个主要问题。占英国人口近5%的英国穆斯林是劳动力市场上最弱势的信仰群体。尽管早在19世纪就在英国存在，但穆斯林社区长期以来一直面临着植根于东方主义的偏见——媒体在这种东方主义框架中扮演着重要角色。如果阻止年轻穆斯林获得更好资格的障碍得不到解决，他们将面临社会向下流动的高风险。这项拟议的研究将考察英国穆斯林学生的不同样本的实际经历和看法，调查伊斯兰恐惧症在多大程度上以及以何种方式被视为一种障碍。来自英国新闻来源的多元化样本的新闻文本语料库也将被检查，以确定媒体对英国穆斯林学生和学校伊斯兰恐惧症的介绍和框架。通过东方学、不公正认知和批判种族理论的视角，本研究将通过特别关注学校的伊斯兰恐惧症如何影响英国年轻穆斯林对高等教育的追求来填补现有文献的空白。

Increasing socioeconomic inequalities continue to be a major public concern in the UnitedKingdom. British Muslims, almost 5% of the UK population, are the most disadvantagedfaith group in the labour market. Despite having a presence in Britain as far back as the19th century, the Muslim community has long faced prejudice rooted in Orientalism -with the media playing a significant role in this Orientalist framing. Young Muslims are ata high risk of downward social mobility if the barriers that prevent them from gainingbetter qualifications are not addressed.The proposed study will examine the grounded experiences and perceptions of adiversified sample of British Muslim students, investigating to what extent and in whatways Islamophobia is experienced as a barrier. A corpus of journalistic texts from adiversified sample of British news sources will also be examined to determine the mediarepresentations and framings of British Muslim students and of Islamophobia at school.Through the lenses of Orientalism, epistemic injustice and Critical Race Theory, this studywill fill the gap in available literature by focusing specifically on how Islamophobia atschool impacts the pursuit of higher education among young British Muslims.