EURISLAM publishes research results: Public discourses about Muslims and Islam in Europe
EURISLAM is a European comparative research project that analyses how the incorporation of Islam in European Member States is influenced by national traditions of identity, citizenship and church-state relations.
EURISLAM studies how these traditions have affected interactions between Muslim immigrants and their offspring and the receiving society. Fieldwork is currently being conducted in Belgium, France. Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the UK.
Articles in 'Ethnicities'
The articles included in the April issue of the scientific journal ‘Ethnicities’ represent the main research output of the EURISLAM project.
They aim to provide an up-to-date and in-depth analysis of claims-making, advancing the comparative literature in the field of ethnic relations by investigating an area of research which has been overlooked in the past.
The contribution of this special issue is threefold:
- By advancing the study of the public space, it deals with the increasing salience of specific Islam-related issues in countries with a large Muslim population.
- The study of the public space can reveal longitudinal country convergences and differences, providing a long-term appraisal of the public debate beyond the punctuated, most dramatic and spectacular happenings in the field of Islam.
- The contributions in this special issue shed new light on the implications of national policy processes and distinct logics of integration in terms of discursive framing in the field, the behaviour of key actors such as political parties and, more broadly, the possibility for Muslims to play a key role of political entrepreneurship beyond their own specific cultural concerns.