1. El miedo a lo distinto y distante: La representación social estigmatizada de los musulmanes en México.
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Gaytán Alcalá, Felipe
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RELIGIOUS diversity , *CULTURAL landscapes , *ISLAM , *OPEN-ended questions , *EXTREMISTS , *MUSLIM Americans , *MUSLIMS - Abstract
The growth of Muslim communities in Mexico has not only had a relative cultural impact on the landscape of religious diversity due to the growing Arab Muslim migration and the conversion of Mexicans to Islam, but this growth has also been part of the hemispheric agenda with the United States, particularly after the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas in 1994 and the presence of Spanish Muslims, supposedly linked to Hezbollah, trying to join the armed movement. In this text, we analyze the social representation of the migration in transit or permanent of Muslims (mostly Arabs) through journalistic notes and reports leaked to the media. This opens some questions. In what way has the stigma of being Muslim-Arab as a potential extremist or terror suspect in your transit as a migrant built up in the media? What have been the events for which they have been stigmatized in our country? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020