New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America [Hardcover]

This book provides insights into some of the social topics related to the homogenization and stereotyping of Muslims. It explores the experiences of Muslims in Western societies, with a particular focus not only on gender, home and belonging, multiculturalism, and ethnicity.

Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America; Moha Ennaji

Part I HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL BACKGROUND
1. A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States: Political Ethos and Praxis; Younes Abouyoub
2. 'American Citizens of Arabic-speaking Stock': The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine; Denise Laszewski Jenison
3. The Master, the Pir and their Followers in Diaspora: G?len's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi; Sherifa Zuhur
4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity; Moha Ennaji

Part II MUSLIM DIASPORA, MULTICULTURALISM, AND IDENTITY ISSUES
5. Muslim migrants and the push for religious multiculturalism in Canada; Haideh Moghissi
6. 'I'm not different  because everybody is different.': Notions of belonging amongst Muslims in the Netherlands; Lenie Brouwer
7. Telling and Retelling Karbal?': The Transnational Effect of the Use of Shi'a Narratives on Political and Social Participation amongst Shi'as in the United States; Cyrus Ali Contractor
8. The Immigrant Food and 'Trans-Memory' of Home in Diana Abu-Naber's The Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak's Honor; Eda Dedebas Dundar

Part III REFLECTIONS ON MUSLIM DIASPORIC WOMEN
9. Women and Islam in the Western media; Karen Vintges
10. Muslim North African Women and Migration in the Context of Globalization; FatimaSadiqi
11. Multiculturalism in Muslim America?: The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in 'Arab DetroitlӶ