New Horizons of Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America (eBook)

Moha Ennaji (Herausgeber)

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2016
282 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
9781137554963 (ISBN)

Infos

The authors in this book criticize the essentialist approach to the concept of culture which reduces all diasporic Muslims to one category and ignores other important factors that shape the attitudes and behaviors of Muslims in the West, particularly their socio-economic status, gender, age, education, social class, and attitude toward religion and the Western lifestyle. The majority of Muslims in North America and Europe are reluctant to be reduced to 'Muslim,' although some of them feel obliged to accept the label. In this volume, the various chapters reveal that diasporic Muslims are heterogeneous given their diverse cultures and ethnicities; they are actually divided, not united, and have different views and interpretations of Islam and various attitudes and representations of Western realities. Due to their marginalization and often low social status, some Muslims turn to religion and traditional values and practices to overlook for their socio-economic exclusion from the European or American society.

Moha Ennaji is Professor at the University of Fès, Morocco. He is a specialist of language, migration, and gender studies, with many publications in culture, minority, and ethnicity issues; for example, Ennaji's most book recent book is titled Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. He is co-founder and president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures at the University of Fès, Morocco.

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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.

Autor

Moha Ennaji is Professor at the University of Fès, Morocco. He is a specialist of language, migration, and gender studies, with many publications in culture, minority, and ethnicity issues; for example, Ennaji's most book recent book is titled Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe. He is co-founder and president of the International Institute for Languages and Cultures, Fès, Morocco.

Inhalt

Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in Europe and North America; Moha EnnajiPart 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 Abouyoub2. '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: Gülen's Followers (Hizmet) and the Maktab Tariqat Oveyssi Shahmaghsoudi; Sherifa Zuhur4. Muslim Diaspora in Europe and Cultural Diversity; Moha EnnajiPart II MUSLIM DIASPORA, MULTICULTURALISM, AND IDENTITY ISSUES
5. Muslim migrants and the push for religious multiculturalism in Canada; Haideh Moghissi6. 'I'm not different – because everybody is different.': Notions of belonging amongst Muslims in the Netherlands; Lenie Brouwer7. 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 Contractor8. The Immigrant Food and 'Trans-Memory' of Home in Diana Abu-Naber's The Language of Baklava and Elif Shafak's Honor; Eda Dedebas DundarPart III REFLECTIONS ON MUSLIM DIASPORIC WOMEN
9. Women and Islam in the Western media; Karen Vintges10. Muslim North African Women and Migration in the Context of Globalization; Fatima Sadiqi11. Multiculturalism in Muslim America?: The Case of Health Disparities and Discrimination in 'Arab Detroit,' Michigan; Marcia C. Inhorn 12. Voicing Resistance, Sharing Struggle: Muslim Women facing Canadian Gender, Race and Ethnic Oppression; Naima BendrissPart IV ASPECTS OF INTEGRATION, DISCRIMINATION AND ISLAMOPHOBIA
13. Salafism and Democracy – A German Debate; Susanne Schröter14. Muslims in the Netherlands: a threatening community or a community under threat?; Jan Jaap de Ruiter15. Polygyny and the Performance of Gendered Power Among African American Muslims; Debra Majeed16. Muslim-Americans: Between the Challenge of Policing and Freedom of Expression; Elizabeth BishopNotes on ContributorsIndex

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XI, 282 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: assimilation • Citizenship • Community • Democracy • Development • Diversity • Europe • Gender • Globalization • Identity • Integration • integration marginalization • Islam • Islamophobia • Memory • Migration • Multiculturalism • Muslim diaspora • Nation • Nationalism • North America • Oppression • Participation • resistance • Salafism • sociocultural change • transnational • transnationalism
• ISBN-13: 9781137554963 / 9781137554963