Islam and Muslims in the Republic of Ireland: An Introduction to the Special Issue

Monitoring report on integration 2020

“…Second, the vast majority of the Muslim population in Ireland is newly arrived, meaning that even more so than in European countries with long histories of Islam, they resemble an immigrant group from an integration perspective. Before the recent economic boom (the Celtic Tiger), the Muslim population in Ireland was largely comprised of doctors or medical students, some of whom stayed in Ireland to practice medicine (Scharbrodt and Sakaranaho, 2011). Since the early 1990s the Muslim population has grown rapidly from its small base.…”

Islamic Schooling in the Cultural West: A Systematic Review of the Issues Concerning School Choice

“…The apparent discrepancies between the percentages cited by Choudhury (2005), (Daun and Arjmand 2005, p. 413), and Tinker (2009) are due to variation in types of schools included in their analysis. In majority Catholic Ireland, state-funded Islamic schools have existed since 1993 (Scharbrodt and Sakaranaho 2011). The teachers have to be certified by the Department of Education and the schools combine Islamic ethos with the national school syllabus in Ireland.…”

New Immigrant Destinations in Global Context

“…Nonetheless, the absence or limited sense of immigrant settlement as part of recallable local histories in NIDs contours the context of immigrant reception, especially vis‐à‐vis racial/ethnic or cultural dynamics. Whether the U.S. South's Black–White racial binary, South Africa's understanding of the link between blackness and nationality, or Ireland's Protestant‐Catholic distinction (Scharbrodt and Sakaranaho, ; McAreavey, ; Vandeyar, ; Winders, ), immigrant settlement in NIDs can force reconfigurations of how both immigrants and native‐born residents understand racial and cultural identities, past and present.…”

“…In the U.S., NIDs are typically identified as individual states, such as North Carolina, or individual communities, such as Nashville. In Europe, by contrast, scholars tend to focus on new immigration countries, working with data at the national scale and framing the issues associated with immigrant settlement as national, not local, questions (Scharbrodt and Sakaranaho, 2011). In studies of NIDs beyond Europe and the U.S, there are no clear trends, with some studies positioned as national discussions (Hamada et al, 2009;Lincoln, 2009;Li, 2012) and others as discussions of individual cities or regions (Haugen and Carling, 2005).…”

“…For work on smaller refugee populations in U.S. NIDs from the 1970s onward, see Winders, ; Bankston, . For attention to such histories in Europe, see Scharbrodt and Sakaranaho, .…”