Abstract
The United States is considered to be both “multicultural” and “democratic”—features of the nation-state that are extolled as political virtues. Yet, not all American citizens enjoy the full benefits of a multicultural democracy. This chapter examines the experiences of recent Arab Muslim migrants to the United States, and the intersecting forms of oppression facing this particular Muslim community. The focus of this chapter, furthermore, is on “health disparities,” defined as differences in health status, health environment, and access to quality health care, which lead certain populations to have poorer health outcomes than others (Braveman 2006). In the United States, research on health disparities has focused heavily on African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latinos. However, health disparities are a problem for other ethnic minority populations in the United States, including new immigrant and refugee populations from the Muslim world.
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Inhorn, M.C. (2016). Multiculturalism in Muslim America? The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in “Arab Detroit,” Michigan. In: Ennaji, M. (eds) New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137554963_12
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