Navigating Triple Consciousness in the Diaspora: An Autoethnographic Account of an Ahmadi Muslim Woman in Canada

In 1974, the Pakistani Constitution was amended to declare Ahmadi Muslims as "non-Muslim", initiating a systematic and hegemonic structural attempt to restrict Ahmadi Muslims from professing and practicing the Islamic faith in Pakistan. This state-sanctioned exclusion led to the mass migra...

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主要作者: Mian Akram, Ayesha (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: MDPI 2022
In: Religions
Year: 2022, 卷: 13, 發布: 6
Further subjects:B Canada
B triple consciousness
B Racialization
B autoethnography
B diaspora studies
B Subjectivities
B transnational feminism
B 阿赫邁底亞
B Muslim Women
B anti-Muslim racism
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總結:In 1974, the Pakistani Constitution was amended to declare Ahmadi Muslims as "non-Muslim", initiating a systematic and hegemonic structural attempt to restrict Ahmadi Muslims from professing and practicing the Islamic faith in Pakistan. This state-sanctioned exclusion led to the mass migration of Ahmadis out of Pakistan into diasporic contexts. Using autoethnography, this article examines how being an Ahmadi Muslim woman in Canada remains rooted in deeply divisive politico-religious conflicts that transcend temporal and spatial boundaries and result in multiple layers of marginalities in the diaspora. I am conscious that my self-formation is racialized, gendered, and classed across three primary intersections: as a Pakistani/South Asian; as an Ahmadi Muslim; and as a woman. This "triple consciousness", a term coined by Black feminist scholars and Afro-Latinx scholars in the United States to extend W. E. B. Du Bois’ "double consciousness", produces a liminal and contradictory space of belonging—one that requires further reflection and analysis in the Canadian context where the racial continues to dominate our social world and proximity to Whiteness is privileged and rewarded.
ISSN:2077-1444
Contains:Enthalten in: Religions
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.3390/rel13060493