The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States

Welborne, Bozena C.; Westfall, Aubrey; Russell, Özge Çelik; Tobin, Sarah A.

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“…This makes for an interesting case for Latina immigrant Mormons, who I see as participants in a dual ethnoreligious context-one that honors the traditions of their sending countries through their contribution in shaping US Mormon religious practices. However, attempts to integrate migrants within a host society can also create contention and isolation if those host societies treat immigrant groups as inferior based on differences in areas like ethnic identity or cultural practices (Lawson 1998;Ong 2003;Hinojosa 2014;Waninger 2015;Welborne et al 2018).…”

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Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West

Romanello

2021

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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS), also called Mormonism, has experienced rapid changes in its US demographics due to an influx of Latinx membership. The most recent growth in the US church body has been within Spanish-speaking congregations, and many of these congregant members are first or 1.5-generation immigrant Latinas. Using ethnographic data from 27 interviews with immigrant members living in Utah, Nevada, and California, LDS Latinas reported that while US Anglo members did seem to appreciate certain aspects of their cultural customs or practices, they also reported frequently experiencing ethnic homogenization or racial tokenization within US Church spaces and with White family members. Our findings indicate that the contemporary LDS church, despite some progressive policy implementations within its doctrinal parameters, still struggles in its ever-globalizing state to prioritize exposing White US members to the cultural heterogeneity of non-White, global LDS identities and perspectives. Latina LDS experiences and their religious adjacency to Whiteness provide a useful lens by which researchers can better understand the ways in which ethnic identity, gender, legal status, and language create both opportunities and challenges for immigrant incorporation and inclusion within US religious spaces and add to the existing body of scholarship on migration and religion.

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Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West

Romanello

2021

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The Gender Paradox of Remittances

Welborne

2022

Women, Money, and Political Participation in the Middle East

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Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

2022

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Research finds that social media platforms’ peer-to-peer structures shape the public discourse and increase citizens’ likelihood of exposure to unregulated, false, and prejudicial content. Here, we test whether self-reported reliance on social media as a primary news source is linked to racialised policy support, taking the case of United States Muslims, a publicly visible but understudied group about whom significant false and prejudicial content is abundant on these platforms. Drawing on three original surveys and the Nationscape dataset, we find a strong and consistent association between reliance on social media and support for a range of anti-Muslim policies. Importantly, reliance on social media is linked to policy attitudes across the partisan divide and for individuals who reported holding positive or negative feelings towards Muslims. These findings highlight the need for further investigation into the political ramification of information presented on contemporary social media outlets, particularly information related to stigmatised groups.

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The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States

Cited by 10 publications

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Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West

Not a Country or a Stereotype: Latina LDS Experiences of Ethnic Homogenization and Racial Tokenism in the American West

The Gender Paradox of Remittances

Hate, amplified? Social media news consumption and support for anti-Muslim policies

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