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%T Resilient or Adaptable Islam?
%A Statham, Paul
%A Koopmans, Ruud
%A Giugni, Marco
%A Passy, Florence
%J Ethnicities
%N 4
%P 427-459
%V 5
%D 2005
%K community cohesion; ethnic minorities; Muslims;
%= 2011-03-01T06:25:00Z
%~ http://www.peerproject.eu/
%> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-230212
%X This article investigates multiculturalism by examining the relationship between                migrants’ group demands and liberal states’ policies for                politically accommodating cultural and religious difference. It focuses especially                on Islam. The empirical research compares migrants’ claims-making for                group demands in countries with different traditions for granting recognition to                migrants’ cultural difference – Britain, France and the                Netherlands. Overall, we find very modest levels of group demands indicating that                the challenge of group demands to liberal democracies is quantitatively less than                the impression given by much multicultural literature. Group demands turn out to be                significant only for Muslims, which holds across different countries. Qualitative                analysis reveals problematic relationships between Islam and the state, in the                overtly multicultural Dutch approach, within British race relations, and French                civic universalism. This implies that there is no easy blueprint for politically                accommodating Islam, whose public and religious nature makes it especially resilient                to political adaptation.
%G en
%9 journal article
%W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org
%~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info