Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia
Muslim migration to the West has witnessed a surge in the last few decades in light of a host of crises and conflicts that have been taking place across the Muslim world. This article analyses the case of a group of Muslims from a stable and highly-developed country that similarly took the life-chan...
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| description | Muslim migration to the West has witnessed a surge in the last few decades in light of a host of crises and conflicts that have been taking place across the Muslim world. This article analyses the case of a group of Muslims from a stable and highly-developed country that similarly took the life-changing step of migrating to the West. We argue that one of the crucial factors that have driven Malay-Muslims from Singapore to migrate to Australia is what could be termed as “psycho-pious motivations.” By this, we mean motivations that are borne out of a negative psychological context and of being in a disadvantaged position when it comes to religiosity, thus generating the desire to relocate to a different country where a better life and the freedom to enliven one’s religiosity can be fully realized. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:188462022-06-28T01:07:16Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/ Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia Syed Khairudin Aljunied, Abbas Khan, Muslim migration to the West has witnessed a surge in the last few decades in light of a host of crises and conflicts that have been taking place across the Muslim world. This article analyses the case of a group of Muslims from a stable and highly-developed country that similarly took the life-changing step of migrating to the West. We argue that one of the crucial factors that have driven Malay-Muslims from Singapore to migrate to Australia is what could be termed as “psycho-pious motivations.” By this, we mean motivations that are borne out of a negative psychological context and of being in a disadvantaged position when it comes to religiosity, thus generating the desire to relocate to a different country where a better life and the freedom to enliven one’s religiosity can be fully realized. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/1/55102-183629-1-PB.pdf Syed Khairudin Aljunied, and Abbas Khan, (2022) Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia. AKADEMIKA, 92 (1). pp. 209-220. ISSN 0126-5008 https://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/1464 |
| spellingShingle | Syed Khairudin Aljunied, Abbas Khan, Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title | Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title_full | Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title_fullStr | Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title_short | Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia |
| title_sort | psycho-pious motivations and muslim migration to the west : the case of singaporean malay-muslims in melbourne, australia |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/1/55102-183629-1-PB.pdf |