Full Description
Bringing together ten research based contributions, Muslims, Migration and Citizenship addresses questions about the changing experiences of Muslim communities, or specific groups within them, in various national and localised environments. Although not an exhaustive survey of the broad range of scholarly research in this evolving field, this book covers issues that are likely to be of some importance in the coming period. In particular, the contributors highlight the complexity of the experiences of Muslim communities in different national and cultural environments, and the evolution of both policy discourses and debates in civil society. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnic and Racial Studies.
Contents
Introduction 1. Controversy, Islam and politics: an exploration of the 'Innocence of Muslims' affair through the eyes of British Muslim elites 2. Reluctant pluralists: European Muslims and essentialist identities 3. Freedom of religion, women's agency and banning the face veil: the role of feminist beliefs in shaping women's opinion 4. Balancing agency, gender and race: how do Muslim female teenagers in Quebec negotiate the social meanings embedded in the hijab? 5. White privilege in the lives of Muslim converts in Britain 6. A complex interplay between religion, gender and marginalization: Pakistani schoolgirls in Hong Kong 7. Radicalization and counter-radicalization at British universities: Muslim encounters and alternatives 8. The 'metropolis of dissent': Muslim participation in Leicester and the 'failure' of multiculturalism in Britain 9. Online Islamophobia and the politics of fear: manufacturing the green scare 10. Being Muslim and being Irish after 9/11: self-conceptions of place in Irish society
