{"id":63078,"date":"2022-02-14T02:43:11","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T02:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63078"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T16:16:51","slug":"5-years-after-muslim-ban-middle-eastern-and-north-african-americans-remain-hidden-opinion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63078","title":{"rendered":"5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion"},"content":{"rendered":"

5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Newsweek<\/a>
\n2022-02-08<\/p>\n

Neda Maghbouleh<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Toronto<\/em><\/p>\n

Ren\u00e9 D. Flores<\/strong><\/a>, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology
\nUniversity of Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n

Ariela Schachter<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor of Sociology\u200b; Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies
\nWashington University in St. Louis, Saint Louis, Missouri<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nJUSTIN SULLIVAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/small><\/p>\n

Five years ago, President Donald Trump<\/a> was sued over the Muslim ban<\/a>, which prohibited immigration and travel to the United States<\/a> from seven majority Muslim countries. Although it is impossible to know how many lives were thrown into disarray by the flick of President Donald Trump’s pen, at least 41,000 people were denied visas based solely on their nationality. An overwhelming majority\u201494 percent\u2014were people from Iran<\/a>, Syria<\/a> and Yemen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

President Joe Biden<\/a>, like other critics of the ban, proclaimed that those affected “were the first to feel Donald Trump’s assault on Black and brown people.” But since a 1944 lawsuit in which a Arab Muslim man successfully argued that he was white<\/a> in order to become a naturalized citizen, people from the Middle East and North Africa<\/a> (MENA, which includes Iran, Syria and Yemen) have been counted as white in the U.S. As a result, and unlike other minorities, an estimated 3 million MENA Americans do not have a box to mark their identities on the Census or most surveys. And when MENA Americans are masked under the white category, the everyday group- and individual-level inequalities they face are made invisible, making clear that adding a MENA box to the U.S. Census<\/a> is long overdue…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

5 Years After Muslim Ban, Middle Eastern and North African Americans Remain Hidden | Opinion Newsweek 2022-02-08 Neda Maghbouleh, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Toronto Ren\u00e9 D. Flores, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Chicago Ariela Schachter, Assistant Professor of Sociology\u200b; Faculty Affiliate in Asian American Studies Washington University in St. Louis, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,8,26,394,20],"tags":[33024,21057,28895,26413,26982,2459,33023,2546,5367],"class_list":["post-63078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ariela-schachter","tag-donald-trump","tag-joseph-biden","tag-mena","tag-neda-maghbouleh","tag-newsweek","tag-rene-d-flores","tag-u-s-census-bureau","tag-united-states-census-bureau"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63083,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63078\/revisions\/63083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}