Young Muslims' Experiences of Islamophobia, Education and Social Mobility

日益严重的社会经济不平等仍然是联合王国公众关注的一个主要问题。英国穆斯林几乎占英国人口的5%，他们是劳动力市场上最不利的信仰群体。尽管穆斯林社区早在19世纪就存在于英国，但长期以来一直面临根植于东方主义的偏见--媒体在这种东方主义框架中扮演着重要角色。如果阻碍年轻穆斯林获得更好学历的障碍得不到解决，年轻穆斯林很有可能向下流动。这项研究将调查英国穆斯林学生的多样化样本的扎根经历和看法，调查伊斯兰恐惧症在多大程度上和以什么方式被认为是一种障碍。本研究还将对来自不同英国新闻来源的新闻文本语料库进行审查，以确定英国穆斯林学生和学校伊斯兰恐惧症的媒体呈现和框架。通过东方主义、认知不公正和批评种族理论的镜头，这项研究将专门关注学校伊斯兰恐惧症如何影响英国年轻穆斯林接受高等教育的问题，从而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.