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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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Main Authors: Syed Khairudin Aljunied,, Abbas Khan,
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2022
Online Access:http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/1/55102-183629-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/
https://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/1464
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spelling my-ukm.journal.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
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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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author Syed Khairudin Aljunied,
Abbas Khan,
spellingShingle Syed Khairudin Aljunied,
Abbas Khan,
Psycho-pious motivations and Muslim migration to the West : the case of Singaporean Malay-Muslims in Melbourne, Australia
author_facet Syed Khairudin Aljunied,
Abbas Khan,
author_sort Syed Khairudin Aljunied,
title 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_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_sort psycho-pious motivations and muslim migration to the west : the case of singaporean malay-muslims in melbourne, australia
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2022
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/1/55102-183629-1-PB.pdf
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/18846/
https://ejournal.ukm.my/akademika/issue/view/1464
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