. Taking further Brubaker's (2002) important argument for the use of ethnicity as a category of practice instead of a category of analysis, the debate entails a critique of the ethnic lens, with the argument that research had fostered the construction of "migrant communities" based on a ...
their social identity, putting people in ethnic and racial categories and assessing their claims of epistemic credibility based on those categories is a feature of discrimination, as we are assuming that people with ‘similar’ backgrounds, race, gender, ethnicity etc., have similar experience as ...
Section 1.4 argues further that the interrelated nature of gender, ethnicity, and religion in this case is most usefully analyzed through a "regimes of im/mobility" approach. It also presents the important contexts provided by different prisms: Iranian-American Studies, Middle Eastern/Islamic Studies...