This presentation is part of the Challenging Racism Project from the School of Social Sciences, Western Sydney University.
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Presented by Professor Kevin Dunn, the webinar is based on the research project*, Segmenting Islamophobia: Understanding Victorians varied attitudes toward Muslims.
The study aimed to address the following questions: To what extent is Islamophobia manifest across the Victorian population? What are the different manifestations and categories that can adequately represent the range of Islamophobia? Are some of the observed covariates predictive of individuals’ membership in each class? What are the types and form of anti-racist response to these categories of Islamophobia?
Using data collected from a sample of 4019 Victorians, the study placed Victorians into 5 groups based on their perceptions of Islam in Victoria: Islamophobes (9%), Islamophobes with assimilationist tendencies (23%), Undecideds (17%), Progressives with concerns about Islam (32%), and Progressives (19%). Through a series of community consultations these groups were tested for validity and relevance and interventions that could target each group were developed. Key findings included: The Progressives was the only group untouched by Islamophobic sentiments, Islamophobia reaches through all of the other four groups, to some degree; and Islamophobia varied in each group across the degrees of social distance, support for (un)even treatment, recognition of intrinsic rights and citizenship, and intolerance of specific Muslim performances and traits.
*This research project was a collaboration between the Challenging Racism Project, Western Sydney University and the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. Co-authors include Craig McGarty, Thierno Diallo, Rachel Sharples, Fethi Mansouri, Yin Paradies, Matteo Vergani and Amanuel Elias.
Details:
Zoom Webinar - link provided on registration
Registration: email challengingracism@westernsydney.edu.au