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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790241503321

Autore

Triandafyllidou Anna

Titolo

European multiculturalisms [[electronic resource] ] : cultural, religious and ethnic challenges / / edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-78402-723-5

0-7486-4453-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Classificazione

MS 1290

MS 3300

MS 6550

Altri autori (Persone)

TriandafyllidouAnna

ModoodTariq

MeerNasar <1980->

Disciplina

300

Soggetti

Multiculturalism - Europe

Cultural pluralism - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; 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 Policies7 Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe; 9 Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colour-blindness; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 entrenc