Muslim Moroccan Migrants in Europe
Subtitle: Transnational Migration in Its Multiplicity
By: Moha Ennaji
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9781137476487
Subjects: Moroccans; Social conditions; Muslims; Immigrants; Ethnic identity; Cultural assimilation; Social Marginality; Islamophobia; Ethnic relations; Emigration and immigration; Social aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Description: "Focusing especially on Muslim Moroccan migrants, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape. Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, it elucidates how Muslim migrants in Europe suffer from marginalization and Islamophobia while, at the same time, contributing economically, politically, and culturally to their host countries, as well their countries of origin"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I. MUSLIM MOROCCAN MIGRATION FLOWS : PAST AND PRESENT; title: Moroccan Migration History : Origins and Causes of Migration; title: How Moroccans live in Europe; title: PART II. BEING MOROCCAN AND MUSLIM IN EUROPE; title: What it means to be a Muslim in Europe : Islam and Islamophobia; title: Women and the Veil Debate; title: How Moroccan Women in Europe Cope and Resist; title: Education and Language Issues; title: PART III. BECOMING MOROCCAN-EUROPEAN; title: Challenges of Integration; title: Identity and citizenship; title: Migrants' Contributions to Development and Social Change; title: Success stories.