My family research project will focus on the fourth wave of migration and the identity of American immigrants especially Muslim immigrants. There are several questions that I will focus on in my family research projects such as what economical or social condition motivated for people to migrate to the US after 1965 and how it is different from the previous waves of immigration, but the main question that I will focus on is how to recent Muslim immigrants identity themselves socially and politically and how has their identification has changed due to the 9/11 attack and the subsequent War on Terror. My current thesis is that the Muslim immigrants has gone through a massive identity change both politically and socially due to the national focus
