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%T SOCIAL SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSES ON IMIGRANT/MUSLIM YOUTH IDENTITY
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%D 2018
%X In addition to its other features, the period of youth is one in search of identities. Even if the identities constructed in this period are updated or completely renewed, it continues to hold everlasting imprints in the rest of life. It is also a multidimensional period. Like sexual, occupational, national/ethnic, political/ideological ones, religious identity too are among the most effective types of identity. Muslim youth, of course, is not an exception. Just like non-Muslim counterparts, Muslim youth find him/herself in various identity-related factors, or construct ones, since adolescence or even childhood. However, unlike his/her non-Muslim counterparts, s/he is usually characterized mostly with his/her religious identity as if s/he is coming from another planet. This trend is so common that one can observe surprisingly so similar discourses £¿produced by both Western and Muslim scholars£¿ on Muslim youth identities. Thus, it is important to analyze how Muslim youth identities are constructed by social scientists as much as how they are constructed by Muslim youth themselves. Then, what are the major characteristics and arguments of those discourses? How, and under which theoretical/political concerns and aims, is Muslim youth identity (re)constructed by social scientists? This paper will focus on these questions and try to critically evaluate the literature on Muslim youth identity, which has been emerged as a field of expertise especially from the beginning of the 21st Century. Although it is possible to see similar work in other languages, the main data source for this analysis comes from materials written in English. In this context, the content and boundaries of this analysis is drawn by three fields of literature, which are immigration, minorities and youth
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%U http://dergipark.org.tr/adamakademi/issue/38089/359791