European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges (edited by Anna Triandafyllidou, Tariq Modood, and Nasar Meerexplores) explores the issue of migrants, Muslims, integration and citizenship in Europe. It takes as its focus seven European countries – Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece and Spain – that have been host to a variety of multicultural citizenship and diversity integration debates and policies. Each chapter reviews several of these countries in relation to a specific theoretical question or issue: citizenship; diversity; civic recognition; gender; religious diversity and education; integration; anti-discrimination policies; social policy.
The book centers on five core objectives: to chart the legal, political and educational challenges posed by migration-related religious, ethnic and cultural diversity in European countries; to reflect theoretically on those challenges and the value systems involved; to assess the policy solutions adopted in different countries; to compare between different policies/ models and the ways they are implemented; and to discuss whether all solutions are bound in their national contexts or whether they are relevant across Europe.