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Multiculturalism and Integration: struggling with confusions
This spring 2011 has been quite hot politically. The Arab spring has raised
new hope about the social and political reform in the Arab countries. It
has prompted European societies to rethink their often quoted stereotype
that Islam is not compatible with democracy or liberalism. At the same time
Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor Angela Merkel have announced
that multiculturalism has failed. Of course Germany has never practiced any
sort of multiculturalism for it to fail (or succeed)! And multiculturalism
in Britain seems to be alive and strong even if it has gone through a
period of critical rethinking. In this online debate organised by the
ACCEPT PLURALISM project, we want to explore some of the limits of the
currently used concepts and policy approaches, concentrating in particular
on the notion of multiculturalism on one hand, and that of integration, as
they are both used with so many different meanings and connotations that
they some time risk confusing things.
Professor Tariq Modood starts the debate with a chapter from
H. Mahamdallie (ed), Defending Multiculturalism: A Guide For The Movement,
Bookmarks, London, published this week.
In the coming days we shall publish answers by several well known scholars
on the issue. Please watch this site to read them and also leave your own
comment!
Multiculturalism and Integration: struggling with confusions
by Tariq Modood
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