© Columbia University Press
European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges
January, 2011
Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-7486-4451-3
Edinburgh University Press
$36.00
This book explores the issue of migrants, Muslims, integration and citizenship in Europe. It takes as its focus seven European countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain - that have been host to a variety of multicultural citizenship and diversity integration debates and policies. Each chapter reviews several of these countries in relation to a specific theoretical question or issue: citizenship; diversity; civic recognition; gender; religious diversity and education; integration; anti-discrimination policies; social policy.
The book centers on five core objectives: to chart the legal, political and educational challenges posed by migration-related religious, ethnic and cultural diversity in European countries; to reflect theoretically on those challenges and the value systems involved; to assess the policy solutions adopted in different countries; to compare between different policies/ models and the ways they are implemented; and to discuss whether all solutions are bound in their national contexts or whether they are relevant across Europe.