This book examines a wide spectrum of ‘everyday’ experiences of Islamophobia, drawing on first-hand narratives offered by victims. It explores new empirical data including testimonies from more than 100 victims (male, female and communities) of street-level Islamophobia across the UK in order to re-frame and reconfigure existing notions and understandings of Islamophobia. Allen seeks out a meaningful yet pragmatic definition of Islamophobia based on different ‘real-life’ incidences of Islamophobic hate, and explains the numerous different types and forms of Islamophobia such as hate crime, hate speech and institutional discrimination. Overall, it offers robust empirical evidence to inform and shape thinking about and the understanding of Islamophobia as, in part, the need to illustrate the reality of this phenomenon. weiterlesen