News from Sociology of Migration and Education - New article by Dr. Fatih Bahadir Kaya and Aladin El-Mafaalani

03/06/2026

Title page of an academic article from the journal “psychosozial”. At the top, “psychosozial” is written in large letters, with the note “SINGLE ARTICLE” below it. The title is “Anti-Muslim Racism as a Doxic Order,” with the subtitle “Coping as a Trilemmatic Practice.” The authors listed are Fatih Bahadir Kaya and Aladin El-Mafaalani. The layout is designed to be factual and academic.

New article on anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic racism published.

This article examines anti-Muslim and anti-Islamic racism (AMIR) as a historically entrenched structure of inequality that remains operative in the present and shapes social fields at the macro-, meso-, and microsocial levels. Drawing on theories of racism and historical genealogies, the article argues that AMIR functions as a doxic order capable of both stabilizing collective attributions and exerting a lasting influence on biographical trajectories. At the center of the article is a systematic overview of empirical research on affected-oriented modes of perception and coping. Building on this, Boger’s theory of trilemmatic inclusion is introduced as an analytical framework through which coping strategies could in the future be situated in a theory-guided manner within the tension between self-empowerment, normalization, and deconstruction. In conclusion, the article advocates for a research perspective grounded in the sociology of knowledge that incorporates biographical studies, collective orientations, and group-based reconstructions in order to precisely differentiate and theoretically further develop the trilemmatic forms of coping in their empirical variance. Link to the publication

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