The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain

Lewicki, Aleksandra

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“…ethnic or religious 'labels' and those who do not wish to be associated with these, but are perceived as members of a particular cultural or religious group. 8 The research was based on a comprehensive analysis of policy documents and 30 qualitative interviews with individuals involved in the making of 'integration' policies, such as political activists, analysts, civil servants and members of minority organisations in both countries (Lewicki 2014).…”

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“…Cosmopolitanism (Linklater 1998;Benhabib 2008;Held 2010), civic liberalism (Joppke 2010), interculturalism (Cantle 2012) and civic republicanism (Putnam 2007;Putnam and Campbell 2010) are prominent variants of such attempts. Yet, as argued elsewhere, multiculturalism's main concern, which is the systematic specification and problematisation of injustices that affect post-migration minorities, is currently missing in civic liberal, republican or cosmopolitan citizenship discourses in Europe (Lewicki 2014).…”

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Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies

Lewicki

2014

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies

Lewicki

2014

Journal of Contemporary European Studies

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“…Firstly, citizenship regime studies have been criticized for treating minority actors as objects of politics rather than active political subjects (Bousetta 2000;Peró and Solomos 2010;Peró 2011;Lewicki 2014), and confining their conception of what is politically meaningful to action intended to influence political institutions -rather than on more informal and socially oriented forms of action and contestation Gale 2010, 2013;Peró and Solomos 2010).…”

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“…Thus, research has explored Muslim women's struggles for their rights to wear religious attire (Rosenberger and Sauer 2012), involvement in protest movements (Werbner 2000;Massoumi 2015), agency in relation to the "War on Terror" (Brown 2008;Rashid 2014;Wadia 2015), and religious activism (Mahmood 2005;Bano and Kalmbach 2011;Hafez 2011;Hammer 2012). This scholarship has remained largely disconnected too from the wider sociological literature on post-migration minorities' political mobilizations (Bousetta 2000;Koopmans et al 2005;Modood 2005;Peró and Solomos 2010;Cinalli and Giugni 2013;Lewicki 2014;Statham and Tillie 2016), including work that focuses particularly on the mobilization strategies of European Muslims. This article links these literatures more explicitly and highlights the insights that the analysis of Muslim women's activism can add to the literature on post-migration minorities' political mobilizations.…”

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Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim women’s activism in the UK

Lewicki¹,

O’Toole²

2016

Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Drawing on the growing literature on Muslim women's activism, this paper explores grammars of action that frame political mobilizations of Muslim women in the UK. By taking a broad view of political activism, we identify acts and practices of citizenship through which Muslim women activists engage with, reinterpret and challenge social norms. The article critically engages with dominant readings of post-migration minorities' political mobilization through the lens of citizenship regimes and draws attention to more processual and agency-centred perspectives on citizenship. We focus on two salient themes that Bristol-based Muslim activists were concerned with: mobilizing against violence against women, manifested in the anti-FGM campaign by Integrate Bristol, and attempts to re-negotiate the terms of participation in religious spaces, manifested in claims for more inclusive mosques. In both instances, mobilization was not confined to the local community or national level, but supported by and embedded in related transnational struggles.

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“…However, the literature also indicatesthat these institutional settings are not solely responsible for political strategiesa nd decisionsc oncerning integration issues and religious minorities (Bertossi 2007;Koenig 2005;Laurence 2012). Other aspects,like electoral change or discursive framing of debatesabout Islam may have an influence on how politics articulate and perform integration measures (Koomen /Stiphout 2013;Lewicki 2014).…”

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How Integration Policies have Discovered Religion

Brunn¹

2016

Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Co

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This article focuseso nd evelopments of integration policies in Germany,F rance,a nd Britain in the 2000s and aims to examine the increasing attention governments draw to religion. In this decade,all three nation states developednew integration strategies that purposefully try to involvereligion and faith groups.Faith communitieswere supposed to make asignificant contribution in promoting integration and community cohesion. Are these political strategies aform of instrumentalist use of religionfor political purposes or are they more likely ak ind of recognition of religion?F urther, the article aims at exploring how the respectivei ntegration policy varies,a long with particular institutional arrangements in different European countries.F or this propose thep aperc onducts a comparison between Germany,France,and Britain. AW eberian institutional analysis is conductedc ombined with aq ualitative content analysisof48government or government ordered documents. Theresults of this research indicatet hat the way in which governments cooperate with faith communitiesd iffers considerably in the three countries and is strongly connected to national institutional arrangements.Christine Brunn received her Dr. rer.pol. in Sociology at the University of Heidelberg in 2011. Herr esearch has focused on integration policym aking with particular regard to minority religion. Given her interest in E-Learning, she is currently working as atrainee at the Institut fürLerndienstleistungen (ILD) of Lübeck University of Applied Science (FHL). 1I ntroductionDuring the 2000s particularly Germany,Britain, and Franceincreasingly identified minority religions as al ink to implementi ntegration strategies.W ith the increasing interestinMuslims,but also other minority faith groups,asplatforms or mediums for integration measures,religion and religious lifestyles of migrants raised the attention of state agencies in all three cases.R eligious affiliation of migrants was no longer perceived only as abarrier to integration or as asource of social conflictbut as aseriousfactor in migrants self-conceptionand ameansto offer contact points for integration,social cohesion, and dialogue.

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The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain

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Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies

Citizenship beyond Multiculturalism? The Requirements of Social Justice in Diverse Societies

Acts and practices of citizenship: Muslim women’s activism in the UK

How Integration Policies have Discovered Religion

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