Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
10 - Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 What's unique about immigration in Europe?
- 2 Europe's immigration challenge in demographic perspective
- 3 Migration into OECD countries 1990–2000
- 4 Divergent patterns in immigrant earnings across European destinations
- 5 Economic consequences of immigration in Europe
- 6 Occupational status of immigrants in cross-national perspective: A multilevel analysis of seventeen Western societies
- 7 Immigrants, unemployment, and Europe's varying welfare regimes
- 8 How different are immigrants? A cross-country and cross-survey analysis of educational achievement
- 9 Immigration, education, and the Turkish second generation in five European nations: A comparative study
- 10 Managing transnational Islam: Muslims and the state in Western Europe
- 11 Migration mobility in European diasporic space
- 12 The new migratory Europe: Towards a proactive immigration policy?
- 13 European immigration in the people's court
- 14 The politics of immigration in France, Britain, and the United States: A transatlantic comparison
- 15 “Useful” Gastarbeiter, burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
- 16 The European Union dimension: Supranational integration, free movement of persons, and immigration politics
- 17 The effectiveness of governments’ attempts to control unwanted migration
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
Contemporary scholarly accounts of Islam in Europe have tended to portray one of two extreme visions: heaven on earth or hell in a hand basket. In the pessimistic version, foreign policy analyses and the scholarly literature are in rare concurrence about the meager chances for either inter-religious dialog or Muslim integration. These accounts bear witness to a showdown between intransigently secular states and an ambitious, fundamentalist religion whose followers aim to transform the continent into “Eurabia” (Ye'or 2005; Ferguson 2004; Savage 2004). To justify their gloom, these authors cite Islam's un-hierarchical nature and the impossibility of establishing legitimate representatives – or “one phone number” – for Muslim communities in Europe (Rémond 1999; Warner and Wenner 2002). Compounding this difficulty, these scholars emphasize, is the inadequacy of Europe's nineteenth-century State–Church institutions, which stumble from crisis to crisis with this new and agile religious challenger (Fetzer and Soper 2005; Shore 2004). The optimistic voices, on the other hand, come from the camps of post-nationalist theorists and from proponents of a reformed “Euro-Islam” that is divorced from overseers and financiers in the Muslim world (Soysal 1994). But those authors' cheerfulness is founded, respectively, on two formidable hypotheses: the diminishing importance of “host” state institutions for immigrant integration; and the “sending” states’ renunciation of religious influence over the Muslim Diaspora (AlSayyad and Castells 2002). A decade after they were first expounded, neither of these scenarios is in view.
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- Immigration and the Transformation of Europe , pp. 251 - 273Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006
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