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SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
Volume 63, Issue 4, Pages 653-669Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0731121419895006
Keywords
precariousness; Muslim Americans; transnationalism; South Asians; model minority
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- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [DGE-1144087]
- UCLA Asian American Studies Center Graduate/Predoctoral Fellowship Grant
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Precariousness is the notion that unstable and temporary employment can induce feelings of vulnerability and insecurity. As a successful minority because of their high education levels and economic attainments, South Asian Americans can hardly be described as precarious. However, ethnographic observations reveal a collective precariousness felt by this group. Despite measures of success, their positionality as a racialized and stigmatized religious Other induces in them an insecurity akin to that felt by those un(der)employed. They fear that despite their achievements, they can be discriminated against in their workplace because of their race and religion. This anxiety influences their education and career choices, and political engagements. Theoretically, precariousness is largely conceptualized as a phenomenon contained within national borders. However, South Asian Muslim Americans' precariousness is influenced by that of Muslims of other nationalities abroad, underscoring the transnational dimension of precariousness and how it can extend beyond immediate networks and physical borders.
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