Islam, Migration and Integration The Age of Securitization [Paperback]

This work?explores?contemporary debates on migration and integration, focussing on Euro-Muslims.?It critically engages with republicanist and multiculaturalist policies of integration and claims that integration means more than cultural and linguistic assimilation of migrant communities.Preface List of Maps List of Tables List of Figures Introduction Germany: From Segregation to Integration France: From Integration to Segregation Belgium: A Culturally Divided Land The Netherlands: From Multiculturalism to Assimilation Building Communities: Comfort in Purity Accomodation of Islam: Individualization vs. Institutionalization Conclusion: Transnationalizing Integration Bibliography

'Kaya's work represents a useful contribution to the growing literature on the implications of the marginalization of Western Europe's perpetually growing Muslim communities. His emphasis on - and recommendations regarding - the centrality of the plight of younger, European-born Muslims to the evolution of the role of Islam on the continent in the future is one that should be taken seriously by governmental and Muslim communal leaders moving forward. It thus comes highly recommended.' - American Journal of Sociology

'Its fresh analysis of the landscape of European migration and its interdisciplinary appeal make Kaya's Islam, Migration and Integration a valuable resource for students of international migration and of Muslim disporas.' - Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews

'[The book is] informative for students and researchers in international relations as well as political science and a good handbook for general readers who are interested in European affairs, especially in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands.' - Finnish Journal of Ethnicity and Migration

'This book brings a fresh perspective to the issue of the integration of Muslim communities in Europe by opening up the transnational space between the host and thlƒ<