Media coverage of Muslims centers on questions of belonging and citizenship.

Evidence

Stories involving Muslims are dominantly framed around a discourse of cultural incompatibility (Poole, 2019), a failure to integrate or as what Modood (2019) describes as the ‘illegitimate child of British multiculturalism’ (p. 122). This preoccupation with questions of belonging and citizenship has become a prevailing theme that cuts across studies of Muslim representations in the media across disciplines (e.g. Jaspal and Cinnirella, 2010; Malcolm et al., 2010). — Nadia Haq, ‘The National Media Just Sees Muslims…, 7

Categorization

• XREF: Modood’s ‘illegitimate child of British multiculturalism’ resonates with The Namesake’s second-generation negotiations of inherited and adopted belonging.