This stems from a legal ruling in 1944 that deemed all persons from the MENA region, regardless of their religion, “White by law” alongside European Americans
MENAs may be different in some regards from the White population. They are more likely to live below the poverty line, rent rather than own their homes, and report worse health outcomes, including higher age-adjusted mortality risk and lower birth weights (4–6). In countries that collect data on MENA as racialized minorities or people of color, MEN...
They have suggested that September 11, 2001 (9/11), the War on Terror, and increasingly divisive rhetoric in United States political campaigns further differentiated this group from Whites, leading to discriminatory experiences (13, 14).
However, due to the invisibility of this population in administrative data, it has been difficult for researchers to empirically test these claims.
Christian Arab Americans are more likely than Muslim Arab Americans to self-identify as White (25, 26). At the same time, there is evidence that MENA Americans, as a class, face prejudice and discrimination as in the Trump Administration’s Executive Orders 13769 (2017) and 13780 (2017–2021), which largely targeted potential migrants of MENA origin ...
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