The 2017 Trump Travel Ban and Its Longterm Consequences for Muslims in the US
Date
2024-06-06
Authors
Mironova, Maria "Masha"
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University of Oregon
Abstract
Donald Trump’s four-year presidency altered the US sociopolitical landscape in previously unimaginable ways. Among the communities targeted by the administration’s novel legislation were Muslim Americans, who were subject to one of the earliest executive orders the newly elected president signed: the so-called Trump “Muslim ban” or Trump “travel ban,” formally, EO 13769, succeeded by EO 13780. These orders significantly lowered the number of immigrants and refugees to be admitted from Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen; as a result, 700 travelers were detained, up to 60,000 visas “provisionally revoked” (Hersher). Of note is also the fact that these six states have nothing in common outside of having Muslim majority populations. As a result of the Ban, numerous families were separated, plans for immigration to the US in search of a better life cut short, and anti-Muslim hate affected yet another policy. The executive order, though supposedly aimed at “Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry in the United States,” as the full title suggests, had a profound impact on the Muslim population in the US, resulting in not only limits on freedom of movement, but also profound mental and physical health consequences, increased rates of Islamophobic attacks, and familial separation. It is thus the goal of this paper to explore several facets of the consequences of the Ban and outline what they mean, on a personal and structural level for the Muslims in the US and the country as a whole.
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Submitted to the Undergraduate Library Research Award scholarship competition: (2024). 12 pages.
Keywords
Muslim ban, Trump, travel ban, anti-Muslim