Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher
Biographic Data
| ID | 903040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ameena Ghaffar-Kucher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ameena |
| FAMILY NAME | Ghaffar-Kucher |
| SIGNATURE | GHAFFAR-KUCHER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4585-0490 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“Muslims are Finally waking up”: Post-9/11 American immigrant youth challenge conditional citizenship
Across the world, Muslims in non-Muslim majority countries are seen as alien humans, relegated to the margins of citizenship, permitted tenuous forms of belonging as long as they follow the “Good Muslim” script assigned to them by the majority. In the U.S., youth from Muslim American immigrant communities have awakened to, and are rejecting, this conditional citizenship. Drawing on a nation-wide qualitative study with youth from diverse Muslim im…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
Narrow-minded and oppressive’ or a ‘superior culture’? Implications of divergent representations of Islam for Pakistani-American youth
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article examines the complex terrain that working-class Pakistani-American youth must negotiate in their daily lives. Specifically, the article illustrates how particular views of Islam and Americanization manifest in particular sites and within educational discourses, and the resulting dissonance that youth experience. On the one hand, schools view Islam as oppressive, problematic and a hindrance to the youths’…
Writing culture; inscribing lives: A reflective treatise on the burden of representation in native research
This paper complicates the contested assumptions surrounding native research by exploring the burden of representation placed on native researchers because they are seen as insiders. This particular issue of representation is important for native researchers to consider, especially in instances where the research is on an understudied or politically charged group, because of the ways in which the socio-political climate influences both the tellin…
The Religification of Pakistani-American Youth
This article describes a cultural production process called religification, in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim identity is both thrust upon Pakistani-American youth by those who question their citize…
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
The Religification of Pakistani-American Youth
This article describes a cultural production process called religification, in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim identity is both thrust upon Pakistani-American youth by those who question their citize…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
Writing culture; inscribing lives: A reflective treatise on the burden of representation in native research
This paper complicates the contested assumptions surrounding native research by exploring the burden of representation placed on native researchers because they are seen as insiders. This particular issue of representation is important for native researchers to consider, especially in instances where the research is on an understudied or politically charged group, because of the ways in which the socio-political climate influences both the tellin…
Narrow-minded and oppressive’ or a ‘superior culture’? Implications of divergent representations of Islam for Pakistani-American youth
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article examines the complex terrain that working-class Pakistani-American youth must negotiate in their daily lives. Specifically, the article illustrates how particular views of Islam and Americanization manifest in particular sites and within educational discourses, and the resulting dissonance that youth experience. On the one hand, schools view Islam as oppressive, problematic and a hindrance to the youths’…
The Religification of Pakistani-American Youth
This article describes a cultural production process called religification, in which religious affiliation, rather than race or ethnicity, has become the core category of identity for working-class Pakistani-American youth in the United States. In this dialectical process, triggered by political changes following the September 11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim identity is both thrust upon Pakistani-American youth by those who question their citize…
Narrow-minded and oppressive’ or a ‘superior culture’? Implications of divergent representations of Islam for Pakistani-American youth
Drawing on ethnographic data, this article examines the complex terrain that working-class Pakistani-American youth must negotiate in their daily lives. Specifically, the article illustrates how particular views of Islam and Americanization manifest in particular sites and within educational discourses, and the resulting dissonance that youth experience. On the one hand, schools view Islam as oppressive, problematic and a hindrance to the youths’…
Writing culture; inscribing lives: A reflective treatise on the burden of representation in native research
This paper complicates the contested assumptions surrounding native research by exploring the burden of representation placed on native researchers because they are seen as insiders. This particular issue of representation is important for native researchers to consider, especially in instances where the research is on an understudied or politically charged group, because of the ways in which the socio-political climate influences both the tellin…
Culture in acculturation: Refugee youth’s schooling experiences in international schools in New York City
If You Need Help, They are Always There for us”: Education for Refugees in an International High School in NYC
“Muslims are Finally waking up”: Post-9/11 American immigrant youth challenge conditional citizenship
Across the world, Muslims in non-Muslim majority countries are seen as alien humans, relegated to the margins of citizenship, permitted tenuous forms of belonging as long as they follow the “Good Muslim” script assigned to them by the majority. In the U.S., youth from Muslim American immigrant communities have awakened to, and are rejecting, this conditional citizenship. Drawing on a nation-wide qualitative study with youth from diverse Muslim im…
Gender Studies (6 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Immigration (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Law (3 works)