Neda Maghbouleh

Middle Eastern and North African Americans should count in the U.S. census: UTM sociologist

Sharon Aschaiek

 “Middle Eastern and North African Americans may not be perceived, nor perceive themselves, to be White” (February 2022, Proceedings of the National Academic of Sciences of the United States of America). Co-authored by sociologist Neda Maghbouleh, UTM’s Canada Research Chair in Migration, Race, and Identity, it focuses on how the U.S. Census classifies Americans of Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) descent as White. Read the article here