European Multiculturalisms (eBook, ePUB)

Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges
Redaktion: Triandafyllidou, Anna; Meer, Nasar; Modood, Tariq

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Proposes a common European intellectual framework to evaluate recent developments in European multiculturalismThe 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748654116
• Artikelnr.: 56904375

Autorenporträt

Professor Anna Triandafyllidou directs the Cultural Pluralism Research Area at the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. She is also Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, and the Editor in Chief of the Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies. 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 Fellow of the British Academy. Dr Nasar Meer is Reader and Chancellor's Fellow in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Strathclyde.

Inhaltsangabe

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, Angéline Escafré-Dublet and Patrick Simon; Index.