Conference paper

NEW ETHNIC MINORITIES IN EUROPE: MUSLIM COMMUNITIES

Ružica Čičak-Chand ; Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The essay first highlights certain basic features of the attitude of the European immigrant countries towards the new (migrant) ethnic minorities in their midst, the attitude that at the same time is indicative of the existence of various forms of ethnicity in the development of the European nation-states. The differences in the individual “national responses” regarding the existence of new ethnic communities reflect these differences in the understanding of the ethnic/national identity of individual countries. The author then goes on to deal more specifically with the presence of the Muslim population in West-European countries, the population that – perhaps more than any other group of “aliens” – is torn between the Westeuropean practice of racial and increasingly cultural discrimination, and a universal Western belief in the tradition of liberalism, pluralism, and democracy. In connection with this, the role of Islam and the “Muslim” identity in the Muslim communities in West-European countries is analyzed.

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Hrčak ID:

27142

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27142

Publication date:

28.7.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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