Middle East and North African Immigrants in Europe

Current Impact; Local and National Responses

Dr. Ahmed Al-Shahi, Richard Lawless, Dr. Ahmed Al-Shahi, Richard Lawless

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2013
• ISBN:
  9781136872877
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: History
• Sous-sujet: Middle Eastern History

Fourteen specialists from across the European Union discuss current issues regarding Middle Eastern and North African immigrants in Europe, focusing on topics such as immigration legislation, assimilation, integration, multiculturalism, community formation, citizenship, political participation, and religious and cultural identities.This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal Immigrants and Minorities.

INDEX

Page numbers in italics represent Tables

Page numbers in bold represent Figures

abandonment: physical 240; political 239

Abdelrahimsai, Doctor A. 95

accommodation: low-rent 203

action: affirmative 38; political 183

activists: race 210

actors: role of transnational 2

Afghanistan: link to Iraq 269

Agathonicos, M. 72–3

age 126; structure 18

agitation: anti-immigrant 201; anti-migrant 214

Ahmed, M.G. 68, 69

AL-Nur Foundation 70

al-Qaeda 3

Albanians 58

Algeria: independence 235

Algerian historiography: Harkis 236–7

Algerian War (1954–62) 215, 234

allegiance: migrants 19

Allievi, S. 3

amnesties: effects of 17

Anatolia 14

ancien regime: logic of 184

Anderson, B. 166, 268

Antoniou, D. 3

apolitical 225

application examination: slow pace 248

Assimilation in American Life (Gordon)220

assistance: financial 35

associations 186; cultural 155; foreigners 222; grants 185; Islamic 197; liberalizing 184; migrant 221; militants 184; Muslims 222; proliferation 182; religious 186; sewing 221; social 221; voluntary 218–31, 220–3, 227–9

asylum: Denmark 9; first country of 8–9; right to 133; seekers in Germany 132; seekers and recognition rates 133; system 263–73

asylum centre: Red Cross 264

asylum migration: Kurds to Greece 259

asylum policy: Greece 249

asylum procedure: Denmark 264

asylum seekers 9, 15, 132–3; Denmark 264–7; diaspora 256–9; female 287; flows 81; Greece 248–59; ostrich policy 259; Palestinians 272; politics 256–9; self-orientation 271; stigmatization 22; threat to 265; transnational 270–3; views 270

Athens: migration 66

Attitude Cachemire 221, 229

Auslandergesetz: Fo...

Table des matières

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• The State, the Market and Cultural Diversity
• Sociology of a Newcomer: Muslim Migration to Italy — Religious Visibility, Cultural and Political Reactions
• Muslim Immigrants in Greece: Religious Organization and Local Responses
• People from the Middle East in the Netherlands
• Islam and Muslim Immigrants in Austria: Socio-Political Networks and Muslim Leadership of Turkish Immigrants
• The Historical Situation of Turkish Migrants in Germany
• The Legal Status of Turks in Germany
• Self-Employment and Immigrants' Incorporation: The Case of Turks in Germany
• French Representations of Citizenship and Immigrants: The Political Dimension of the Civic Link
• France, Germany and Islam: Negotiating Identities
• British Cities and Ethnic Minorities in the Post-War Era: From Xenophobic Agitation to Multi-Ethnic Government
• Voluntary Associations of Migrants and Politics: The Case of North African Immigrants in France
• A Remarkable Heritage: The ‘Daily Round’ of the Children of the Harkis, between Merger and Vilification
• ‘Give us Asylum and Help us Leave the Country!’ Kurdish Asylum Seekers in Greece and the Politics of Reception
• Fake Passports and Appointed Communities: Nation and Transnationalism in the Danish Asylum System
• ‘Tomorrow Inch Allah, Chance!’ People Smuggler Networks in Sangatte
• Index