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Agency in action: young Muslim women and negotiating higher education in Australia

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journal contribution
posted on 2024-06-04, 00:35 authored by T Jamal Al Deen
This article draws on an analysis of the narratives of Australian young Muslim women to explore their higher education experiences and aspirations. The article aims to explore the notion of agency employed by Muslim female university students in relation to the ways they discover their own capabilities along their deployment of available financial, cultural and social resources under cultural and structural constrains. The women’s accounts suggest that pursuit of higher education is highly perceived as a key to girls’ success and economic independence in the present precarious neoliberal environment yet concerns over Islamophobia and gender and racial discrimination which may curtail employment opportunities are present. The research findings also suggest that educational outcomes entail complex forms of negotiation, bargaining and resistance, stressing the ways in which class, gender, ethnicity and religion interrelate.

History

Journal

British Journal of Sociology of Education

Volume

40

Pagination

598-613

Location

London, Eng.

ISSN

0142-5692

eISSN

1465-3346

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Issue

5

Publisher

Taylor & Francis