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The Singaporean Muslim Community's Road to Social Mobility: Intersections of Values and Structural Impediments

The Singaporean Muslim Community's Road to Social Mobility: Intersections of Values and Structural Impediments

Zainal, Humairah

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies on Islam and Muslims in Southeast Asia

IslamGeneral SociologyPoverty & Social Work

PREORDER - Expected ship date December 22, 2026

ISBN10: 1032471514
ISBN13: 9781032471518
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 22 2026
Pages: 160
Language: English

This book progresses the nuanced idea that, to truly understand social mobility among the Muslim youth of Singapore, it is imperative to examine how their religious, cultural, and communal values intersect with structural factors in influencing their notion and pursuit of 'success'.

The book argues that prevailing definitions of success - centred on credentials, income, and occupational prestige - offer an incomplete account of social mobility, particularly for minority communities. Rather than rejecting established indicators of mobility, the chapters situate them within a broader evaluative landscape that recognises multiple dimensions of aspiration and achievement. Drawing on findings from qualitative interviews conducted with Singaporean Muslim millennials and Gen Z, the book illuminates the range of attitudes and behaviours adopted by young Muslims of different professional and socio-economic backgrounds towards their academic and career pursuits. The book foregrounds a 'values system' approach, analysing these values in terms of their influence on youths' outlook towards success, and highlighting their interaction with structural impediments. By foregrounding value systems, the book reframes mobility as a negotiated process shaped by religious commitments, cultural norms, and structural conditions, and advances current understandings of educational outcomes among minorities.

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