Full Description
Proposes a common European intellectual framework to evaluate recent developments in European multiculturalism The heightened security awareness in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the London and Madrid bombings has resulted in a 'crisis of multiculturalism'. Now is the time to look at the renewed challenges that multiculturalism faces today. Each chapter in this interdisciplinary book reviews the actual state of affairs in several countries in relation to the theories behind immigrant minority claims. With a special focus on Muslim immigrants, the contributors look at the value issues entrenched in multiculturalism and the policy challenges and measures adopted to address them. Key Features * Focuses on 7 European countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain * Gives an overview of different approaches to multiculturalism * Looks at issues of citizenship, diversity, civic recognition, gender, religious diversity & education, integration, anti-discrimination policies and social policy
Contents
Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism, Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood; PART I, Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective; 2. Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe, Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer; 3. The Multicultural States We're In, Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood; 4. Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality, Per Mouritsen; 5. Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism, Nilufer Gole and Julie Billaud; PART II, Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union; 6. Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas; 7. Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe, Ricard Zapata Barrero and Ruby Gropas; 8. Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy, Frauke Miera; 9. Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colour-blindness, Angeline Escafre-Dublet and Patrick Simon; Index.
