Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: Edited by Professor Anver M. Emon

Systemic Islamophobia in Canada: A Research Agenda (University of Toronto Press, 2023) is a volume of critical perspectives edited by law and history Professor Anver M. Emon, Canada Research Chair in Islamic Law and History and director of U of T's Institute of Islamic Studies.

Contributing authors include Faculty of Law Professor Kent Roach on "The Need to Better Understand the Over-Policing and Under-Protection of Muslims." 

The book is the first in the University of Toronto Press series Dimensions: Islam, Muslims, and Critical Thought, publishing "empirically rich, multi-method, interdisciplinary works that build theory and develop knowledge in the study of Islam and Muslims." 

From the UTP website: 

Systemic Islamophobia in Canada presents critical perspectives on systemic Islamophobia in Canadian politics, law, and society, and maps areas for future research and inquiry. The authors consist of both scholars and professionals who encounter in the ordinary course of their work the – sometimes banal, sometimes surprising – operation of systemic Islamophobia. Centring the lived realities of Muslims primarily in Canada, but internationally as well, the contributors identify the limits of democratic accountability in the operation of our shared institutions of government.

Intended as a guide, the volume identifies important points of consideration that have systemic implications for whether, how, and under what conditions Islamophobia is enabled and perpetuated, and in some cases even rendered respectable policy or bureaucratic practice in Canada. Ultimately, Systemic Islamophobia in Canada identifies a range of systemically Islamophobic sites in Canada to guide citizens and policymakers in fulfilling the promise of an inclusive democratic Canada.

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