Sabera Aitabar
PhD student of
sociology /University of Alzahra
Phenomenology of the Afghan Students’
Racial Discrimination Experience
at Kabul and Shahid Rabbani Universities
Abstract:
The study of ethnic discrimination is a branch of sociology of
ethnicity. Ethno sociology can provide applied theories to understand the
phenomenon of ethnicity to solve problems concerning ethnicity in Afghanistan.
This study is an example of the study of ethnic discrimination by
phenomenological method in two public universities in Kabul that is, indeed, an
attempt to explore students’ lives and the meaning they give to ethnic
discrimination and thus, figure out a model for the phenomenological study of
ethnic discrimination. Postcolonial theory in the field of ethnicity has been
selected as the theory of this research and the sample size has been purposefully
selected from a number of various faculties and ethnicities, and the interview
with the population has been recorded and implemented online. Of the four major
ethnic groups that play a role in the social and political structure of
Afghanistan, the Hazara ethnic group has been the most marginalized and
discriminated one. Thus, the focus of the research is mainly on this ethnic
group. The core concept that the researcher reaches at the end of the work is
the concept of “experience of multilayered discrimination” among this
ethnicity.
Keywords: Ethnicity,
ethnic discrimination, post colonialism, racism, multilayered discrimination.