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Hajar Yazdiha is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her research examines the mechanisms underlying the politics of inclusion and exclusion. Through previous research projects, she has examined how macro-structures like immigrant integration policies, proposed legislation, and news media produce conditions of exclusion, as well as how targeted groups perceive and organize through micro-processes of meaning-making.
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This chapter extends a bridge between the sociology of morality and the sociology of migration. A sociology of the morality of migration examines both the moral underpinnings that shape our analytic conceptions of borders, policies, and immigrants, and the social constructions of morality that shape immigration debates. I lay out three conceptual d...
For over two decades, policies for countering violent extremism have enacted racial logics to target Muslim communities as suspect communities. While much research in this vein examines either the enactment of counterterrorism policies or Muslim communities’ responses, less is known about how racialised policies are experienced through relational d...
When we found ourselves in lockdown in March 2020 amid a global pandemic we had not seen in our lifetimes, many of us found our worlds turned irrevocably upside-down. The inequalities between us as academics, so oft-obscured behind the opaque walls of the ivory tower, came into stark contrast. We were not experiencing the precarious moment the same...
Much research documents the systems of racism that undergird the rise of school choice policies and charter schools, racialized organizations that reproduce racial logics. While school choice policy gets enacted at the structural level to enable the formation of charter schools, policy also interacts with a localized neighborhood context where spac...
As immigrant rights movements and anti-immigrant mobilizations engage in contentious battles for public support, it is increasingly essential to understand how these opposing political forces develop strategic alliances, garnering power, and shaping larger debates around immigration. Using newspaper data, this study compares case studies of immigra...
Answering longstanding questions about the relationship between immigrant identity, collective action, and societal incorporation requires a dynamic theory that integrates these micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. I propose a Du Boisian framework of immigrant incorporation that centers immigrants’ subjectivities, accounting for variation in...
When faced with a collective dilemma, why do individuals from the same group perceive their strategic choices differently? A growing actor-centered stream of social movements research shows that strategic decision making is a cultural process where actors decide upon a strategy by drawing on past experiences to make sense of the present and anticip...
While millennials are culturally homogenized as a unitary group, scholarly work has examined the complex historical, economic, and social challenges that shape millennials’ heterogeneity. This paper draws on three studies to build on this work, showing how millennials experience and enact social change across different spaces: beauty politics and t...
A generative turn in scholarship examines the institutional and political dimensions of Islamophobia, conceptualizing Muslim representations as a mechanism of ethnoracial formation in which the media is one such site of racialization. Moments of great political and cultural transformation can motivate and activate these racial projects, generating...
Negative attitudes towards Muslims have increased substantially in Europe, but European Muslims’ perceptions of discrimination vary across national contexts. Three separate approaches explain perceptions of discrimination: social psychological theories at the micro-level, migration theories at the social structural level, and citizenship theories a...
Much of the cultural sociological research in law and culture falls into one of the following approaches: (1) law as a structure that enables and constrains culture; (2) culture as a structure that enables and constrains law; and (3) law as a cultural toolkit or repertoire upon which actors draw to orient strategies for action. This article briefly...
Does ideology affect assessment of the threat of violent extremism? A survey of law enforcement agencies in the United States in 2014 offers a comparison suggesting a small but statistically significant effect: Political attitudes were correlated with assessment of threats posed by Muslim extremists, and threat assessment was not correlated with th...
Islamophobia is a strategic movement led by a small, tightly networked group of misinformation experts that institutionalizes fear and suspicion of Islam through bills and ballot initiatives. This profile examines the ways in which the Islamophobia movement uses law as a strategy, framing the anti-Muslim movement as a subject of constitutional conc...
