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Islamophobia in Australia
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Islamophobia in Australia

A special issue of Religions (ISSN 2077-1444).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2019) | Viewed by 8043

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Derya Iner

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Guest Editor
Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University, Sydney, NSW 2127, Australia
Interests: Islamophobia; Muslim religiosity; Muslim women; Western Muslims; Muslim cultures

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The issue will look diverse manifestations of Islamophobia in Australia (such as online, offline, inter-personal, institutional, regional and urban as well as overt and concealed Islamophobia), global Islamophobia networks operating in Australia, resurgence of Islamophobia in certain times and occasions and through certain campaigns, the impact of politics, media, normalization of Islamophobia on Muslims and the multicultural Australian society. Comparative studies considering Islamophobia in Australia are also welcome. Impact of Islamophobia especially on Muslim women, youth and children and on the targets of online Islamophobia will also be considered.

This issue will be the first study extensively focusing on the diverse manifestation of Islamophobia in Australia. Different layers and types of Islamophobia operating in Australia will provide a comprehensive and complete understanding of Islamophobia. Impact of Islamophobia has been rarely and vaguely analysed aspect in the literature. Paying particular attention to the impact of Islamophobia on Muslim women, youth and children as well as the victims of online cases, this issue will provide original and diverse perspectives on impact of Islamophobia. This issue will be cited frequently especially by those academics comparing Islamophobia in the West and wanting to include Australia in their comparison. Those studying on Australian society for different reasons will also benefit from this issue. Moreover, this study will uniquely contribute to the discussions on the above-listed types and layers of Islamophobia and their implications for Australian Muslim individuals, communities and the broader Australian society.

Dr. Derya Iner
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Islamophobia
  • anti-Muslim
  • anti-Islam
  • racism against Muslims
  • sexism against Muslims
  • xenophobia against Muslims
  • hatred of Islam
  • hatred of Muslims in Australia

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Australian Media and Islamophobia: Representations of Asylum Seeker Children
by Tejaswini Vishwanath Patil and Helen Jacqueline McLaren
Religions 2019, 10(9), 501; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel10090501 - 26 Aug 2019
Cited by 8 | Viewed by 7398
Abstract
Australian media invests considerable attention in asylum seekers and their children, especially those arriving by boat. In this paper, we provide an analysis of Australian newsprint media published during the term of Australia’s Gillard’s government (2010–2013). This period is critical as it coincides [...] Read more.
Australian media invests considerable attention in asylum seekers and their children, especially those arriving by boat. In this paper, we provide an analysis of Australian newsprint media published during the term of Australia’s Gillard’s government (2010–2013). This period is critical as it coincides with rising numbers of boat arrivals to Australian shores, fear towards Muslims, and growing Islamophobia. At the time, there were government promises to move children from offshore immigration detention into community-based detention, that would involve living among mainstream Australian society. A data set of 46 articles from major Australian newspapers articles was subject to a discourse analysis of representations of children in both the written texts and in silences. Manipulative tactics of ‘risk framing’ and ‘dispersed intentionality’ were identified as discursive acts aimed to confuse compassion and deviancy with respect to asylum seeker children presumed to be from Islamic backgrounds. We argue that this was achieved through binary characterizations in which Muslim parents and people smugglers were constructed as deviant alongside intentional silences, that may have otherwise elicited compassion for asylum seeker children. We propose that this period of media reporting is foundational to understanding the rise of Islamophobic discourses and the implication of Muslim children in Australia. Full article
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