Muslim integration
Subtitle: challenging conventional wisdom in Europe and the United States
By: authors: Steffen Angenendt, [and others]
Contributors: Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher: CSIS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Muslims; Social integration; Assimilation (Sociology)
Description: As part of its ongoing Transatlantic Dialogue on Terrorism, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC dedicated its seventh meeting in the series to Muslim integration and assimilation. In partnership with the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) in Berlin, Germany, CSIS hosted a two-day event entitled, "The Transatlantic Dialogue on Muslims in Europe: Dealing with, and Looking Beyond, the Terrorist Threat" to question and explore many of the conclusions Europeans and Americans have drawn about Muslim communities in their own countries. As a summary to the meeting, CSIS commissioned six papers by U.S. and European experts on immigration, demographics, and integration policy, in order to further explore the situation facing Muslim communities on both sides of the Atlantic. Many of the papers reveal the sometimes shaky foundations upon which European and U.S. policymakers are crafting integration policies. More importantly, the report also shows that despite efforts to improve the West's collective understating of Islam and Muslim integration in American and European societies, many countries remain ill-equipped to fully incorporate these growing groups into society at large in terms of economic advancement, social mobility, and political participation. As such, the report highlights some of these shortcomings, puts forth a more accurate picture of European and U.S. Muslim communities, and presents recommendations for improving the status quo.
Notes: "September 2007."

"CSIS Transatlantic Dialogue on Terrorism."--P. 2.

Title taken from title screen (viewed October 18, 2007).

Includes bibliographical references.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Table of contents: title: Muslim population of Europe : a brief overview of demographic trends and socioeconomic integration, with a particular reference to Britain / Ceri Peach; title: Islamism and Europe's Muslims : recent trends / Tim Winter; title: Muslims, integration, and security in Europe / Steffen Angenendt; title: Islam and citizenship in Germany / Jonathan Laurence; title: European approaches to the challenge of radical Islam / Julianne Smith; title: American Muslims and the question of assimilation / Paul M. Barrett.