Description
Book SynopsisThis informative collection investigates the European dimension of multiculturalism and immigration. It argues that political theory discourse of multiculturalism and resulting EU policies assume an interpretation of liberalism developed chiefly from the American experience, and that this issue must be addressed as the European experience is entirely different (with the main influx being non-white, ethnic and religious groups challenging liberalism and existing notions of citizenship).
Presenting a fresh and unique perspective of multiculturalism and citizenship in Western Europe today, this book offers a comparative series of national case studies by a diverse range of leading scholars that together provide a theoretical framework for the volume as a whole. The contributors investigate the extent to which we can talk about a common Europe-wide multiculturalism debate, or whether here too there is a Europe of two (or more) gears, in which some countries address multicultural
Table of Contents
1. European Challenges to Multicultural Citizenship 2. Multiculturalism, Citizenship and Islam in Problematic Encounters in Belgium 3. British Muslims and the Politics of Multiculturalism 4. French Secularism and Islam France’s Headscarf Affair 5. The Particular Universalism of a Nordic Civic Nation 6. Enemies Within the Gates – The Debate about the Citizenship of Muslims in Germany 7. Religious Diversity and Multiculturalism in Southern Europe 8. The Muslim Community and Spanish Tradition 9. Secularism and the Accommodation of Muslims in Europe 10. Europe, Liberalism and the ‘Muslim Question’
