Islamophobia and its Impacts on School Performance among Muslim Canadian Youth


Sarah Masri, McMaster University

Muslim adolescents’ academic engagement is negatively impacted when they experience bullying at school. Lowered academic engagement leads to lack of interest in studying, especially when students are exposed to anti-Muslim stereotypes in their school climates, which lead them to feel misunderstood, unsafe and even excluded. (Moffic, Peteet, Hankir, and Awaad 2019). While studies have focused on Muslim students in the United States, this phenomenon can be applied to Canadian Muslim students. My presentation will look at Muslim students in Toronto schools’ performances and the degree in which their academic performances are affected by their sense of belonging in school.

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