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“The Real Issue Is…”: A Case Study of Anti-Muslim Mobilization in a Rural Great Plains Community

Walton, Sarah
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523631392939933

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2018, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Environment and Natural Resources.
Recent studies by the Southern Poverty Law Center have noted a rise in organized anti-Muslim activism over the last three years. A number of these organized, violent mobilizations have occurred in nonmetropolitan areas. This is partially due to the fact that meatpacking facilities are increasingly located in small cities or rural areas in the Midwest or Great Plains and recruit Muslim African immigrant and refugee workers. This has resulted in a secondary migration of Muslims, particularly Somalis, to smaller meatpacking communities in the Midwest or Great Plains, creating new contexts for ethnic conflict. To date, rural hate groups, specifically these emergent anti-Muslim mobilizations, are not well understood. I seek to determine the justifications and mobilization strategies used in these anti-Muslim mobilizations. I undertake a case study of an anti-Muslim hate group in a small Great Plains community. My core research questions are: 1) How does this group justify their anti-Muslim activism?; and 2) What elements of the group's rhetoric seem to resonate with the local community? I utilize a social movements perspective to analyze transcripts from the hate group's public meetings, a public town hall meeting with a local refugee resettlement agency, and the content of the hate group's public Facebook page (454 group posts; 1,370 individual comments).
Cathy Rakowski (Advisor)
Jill Clark (Committee Member)
Linda Lobao (Committee Member)
143 p.
Sociology
social movements; ethnic conflict; sociology; rural sociology

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  • Walton, S. (2018). “The Real Issue Is…”: A Case Study of Anti-Muslim Mobilization in a Rural Great Plains Community [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523631392939933

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Walton, Sarah. “The Real Issue Is…”: A Case Study of Anti-Muslim Mobilization in a Rural Great Plains Community. 2018. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523631392939933.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Walton, Sarah. "“The Real Issue Is…”: A Case Study of Anti-Muslim Mobilization in a Rural Great Plains Community." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1523631392939933

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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