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Author Adida, Claire L., 1979- author.

Title Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies / Claire L. Adida, David D. Laitin, and Marie-Anne Valfort
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 264 pages) : illustrations
Contents List of figures and tables -- Preface -- Part I -- Introduction -- 1. The challenge of Muslim migrants into Christian-heritage societies -- 2. Anti-Muslim discrimination in the French labor market and its consequences -- Part II -- Research Strategy -- 3. Solving the problem of causal identification -- 4. Procuring a sample -- 5. Research protocols -- Part III -- Why is there religious discrimination in France? -- 6. Muslim characteristics that feed rational Islamophobia -- 7. Evidence of nonrational Islamophobia -- 8. A discriminatory equilibrium -- Part IV -- Looking beyond, looking ahead -- 9. Beyond France: Muslim immigrants in Western Europe and in the United States -- 10. What is to be done? -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Summary "Amid fears of Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian countries. Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies explores this question and concludes that both Muslim and non-Muslim French must share responsibility for the slow progress of integration"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject Muslims -- France -- Public opinion
Islamophobia -- France
Immigrants -- France -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General.
Emigration and immigration
Ethnic relations
Immigrants -- Social conditions
Islamophobia
Muslims -- Public opinion
Integration
Islam
Islamfeindlichkeit
Musulmans -- Opinion publique française.
Islamophobie -- France.
Immigrés -- France -- Conditions sociales.
Relations interethniques -- France.
SUBJECT France -- Emigration and immigration
France -- Ethnic relations
Subject France
Frankreich
Westliche Welt
Form Electronic book
Author Laitin, David D., author.
Valfort, Marie-Anne, 1978- author.
ISBN 9780674088962
0674088964