In this section, we highlight recent research features from MIGLOBA members in academic journals.
Featured publications
The Nonreligious Minority in Morocco: Between Activism, Double Lives, and Migration (2026)
This open access volume by Lena Richter poses the question of what it means to be nonreligious in a society where religion significantly shapes public institutions, legal frameworks, and societal norms. What expectations, dilemmas, and constraints emerge? And how do those who fall outside the religious mainstream adapt to these challenges? Grounded in long-term ethnographic research between 2016 and 2023, ‘Coming Out or Staying In?’ addresses these questions by providing a nuanced account of the nonreligious minority in contemporary Morocco. Based on life-story interviews with over a hundred young adults who self-identify as atheist, agnostic, or cultural Muslim, the book weaves together personal trajectories with theoretical insights from minority studies, queer theory, and feminist scholarship.
This book is the result of her YUFE4Postdoc at the University of Antwerp under supervision of Milena Belloni and Lauren Wagner.