Proposes a common European intellectual framework to evaluate recent developments in European multiculturalismThe 'crisis of multiculturalism' comes at a time of heightened security awareness as a result of the events of 9/11, the London and Madrid bombings, and their aftermath. It is now time for a more sober discourse on the renewed challenges that multiculturalism is facing today.
This interdisciplinary book details empirical and theoretical inquiries into immigrant minority claims, with a special focus on Muslim immigrants, the value issues entrenched in them and the related policy challenges and measures adopted to address them.
Key Features
Focuses on seven European countries - Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain
Gives an overview of the challenge of multiculturalism and evaluates different approaches within a novel analytical framework
Emphasises national debates and approaches to accommodating diversity
Describes to what extent debates, policy challenges and best practices have a European currency
Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor (part-time) at the European University Institute in Florence and Senior Research Fellow at ELIAMEP in Athens. She is editor of /Muslims in 21st Century Europe/ (2010).
Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. His recent publications include /Still Not Easy Being British/ (2010) and (co-edited with J. Salt) /Global Migrations, Ethnicity and Britishness/ (2011).
Nasar Meer is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Northumbria. His publications include /Citizenship, Identity and the Politics of Multiculturalism/ (2010).

Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: Diversity, Integration, Secularism and Multiculturalism, Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood; PART I, Theoretical Developments in a Comparative European Perspective; 2. Framing Contemporary Citizenship and Diversity in Europe, Tariq Modood and Nasar Meer; 3. The Multicultural States We're In, Nasar Meer and Tariq Modood; 4. Beyond Post-national Citizenship: Access, Consequence, Conditionality, Per Mouritsen; 5. Islamic Difference and the Return of Feminist Universalism, Nilufer Gole and Julie Billaud; PART II, Cultural Diversity and Policy Responses in the European Union; 6. Religious Diversity and Education: Intercultural and Multicultural Concepts and Policies, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ruby Gropas; 7. Active Immigrants in Multicultural Contexts: Democratic Challenges in Europe, Ricard Zapata Barrero and Ruby Gropas; 8. Not a One-way Road? Integration as a Concept and as a Policy, Frauke Miera; 9. Ethnic Statistics in Europe: The Paradox of Colour-blindness, Angéline Escafré-Dublet and Patrick Simon; Index.