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
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1 Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism |
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PART I Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective |
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2 Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe |
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3 The Multicultural States We're In |
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4 Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality |
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5 Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism |
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PART II Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union |
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6 Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies |
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7 Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe |
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8 Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy |
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9 Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colour-blindness |
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Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor at the European University Institute in Florence and is Senior Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy in Athens. She is author and editor of numerous books, most recently Muslims in 21st-Century Europe (editor, Routledge, 2009) and What is Europe? (Palgrave, 2010). Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a regular contributor to the media and policy debates and his latest books are Ethnicity, Nationalism and Minority Rights (co-edited with S. May and J. Squires) and Ethnicity, Social Mobility and Public Policy in the US and UK (co-edited with G. Loury and S. Teles) (both CUP, 2004). Nasar Meer is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Northumbria University. He is author of Citizenship, Identity, Consciousness and the Politics of Multiculturalism (Palgrave, 2010).
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