Main description:

Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and religious and cultural identities.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Immigrants and Minorities.

Contents:

1. Muslim Migrations from North Africa and the Middle East: Religious Presence, Institutional Reactions 2. Muslim Immigrants in Greece: Issues of Integration and Local Responses 3. Middle Eastern Populations in the Netherlands 4. French and British Representations of Immigrants and Citizenship5. Why British Ethnic Minorities Participate More in Local Politics than in French Ones: Cities, Institutions and Styles of Political Integration 6. The Legal and Socioeconomic Situation of Turks in Germany 7. Voluntary Associations and Politics: The Case of North Africans in France 8. Islam and Austria: Turkish Imams and Muslim Community Building 9. North African Immigrants in Southern Spain 10. Ethno-Cultural Diversity and Social Cohesion in Europe11. Anatolia in Athens: The Role of Social and Political Networks among Kurdish Asylum Seekers in Greece 12. Ethnicity, Multiculturalism and Cosmopolitanism in Berlin's Turkish Economy 13. Fake Passports and Appointed Communities: National Identities in the Danish Asylum Process