A Muslim Diaspora in Australia

Lejla Voloder is Teaching Fellow, School of Social Sciences, Monash University, Australia. She has been a Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Sociology, Bogazici University, Istanbul, and is co-editor (with L. Kirpitchenko) of Insider Research on Migration and Mobility: International Perspectives on Researcher Positioning (2014)

Contents

Introduction
Don’t you know where you are!
Questions of identity
Researching at home
Researching as an insider
Insiders and outsiders
Cultural or cognitive discordance?
Assimilating migrants or assimilating knowledge?

Chapter 1
Legal and symbolic citizenship
The meeting of Muslim minds
Ethnic communities in a multicultural society
Do you know who you are?
Diaspora
Bosnian diaspora
Muslim diaspora
Bosniak communities
Interpreting meetings, interpreting identities

Chapter 2
Muslims in public places
Designating Muslims and Muslim names
Perpetuating marginality
Islam is in my heart, not on my sleeve
Comparing secularisms
Australia as a Christian country
An a-religious Bosnian Muslim community
Muslim but a-religious
A-religious Muslims in Yugoslavia
Was religion a private matter?
Humanity not religious identities

Chapter 3
Fear in the suburbs
Politicization of religious identities
Disruptions to citizenship
Sensing fear toward the census
Aunt Huria’s fears

Chapter 4
With peace
A Muslim reversion
Essential identities
Inflexible Muslims
Emotions of Islam
Rationalizing Islam





Chapter 5
Eid celebration
Mobilizing multicultural Muslims
Emotions of ethno national identity
Deference to the state
The trouble with citizens and Muslim identity

Conclusion
The state of nations
Organizing communities
Muslimness of Muslims
Individuals within communities

Bibliography

Index