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European Multiculturalisms : Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges / Nasar Meer, Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748644520
  • 9780748644537
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.80094
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism -- PART I Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective -- 2 Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe -- 3 The Multicultural States We're In -- 4 Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality -- 5 Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism -- PART II Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union -- 6 Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies -- 7 Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe -- 8 Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy -- 9 Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colourblindness -- Index
Summary: 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 SpainGives an overview of different approaches to multiculturalismLooks at issues of citizenship, diversity, civic recognition, gender, religious diversity & education, integration, anti-discrimination policies and social policyApproaches multiculuralism in 5 waysCharts the legal, political and educational challenges posed by migration-related religious, ethnic and cultural diversity in European countriesApplies political theory to these practical challenges and the value systems involved Assesses the policy solutions adopted in different countriesCompares different policies and models, and how they are implementedDiscusses whether all solutions are bound in their national contexts or whether they are relevant across Europe
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism -- PART I Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective -- 2 Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe -- 3 The Multicultural States We're In -- 4 Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality -- 5 Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism -- PART II Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union -- 6 Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies -- 7 Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe -- 8 Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy -- 9 Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colourblindness -- Index

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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 SpainGives an overview of different approaches to multiculturalismLooks at issues of citizenship, diversity, civic recognition, gender, religious diversity & education, integration, anti-discrimination policies and social policyApproaches multiculuralism in 5 waysCharts the legal, political and educational challenges posed by migration-related religious, ethnic and cultural diversity in European countriesApplies political theory to these practical challenges and the value systems involved Assesses the policy solutions adopted in different countriesCompares different policies and models, and how they are implementedDiscusses whether all solutions are bound in their national contexts or whether they are relevant across Europe

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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