Diaspora by Design: Muslims in Canada and Beyond - Couverture souple

Moghissi, Haideh; Rahnema, Saeed; Goodman, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802095437 ISBN 13 : 9780802095435

Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2009

Synopsis

Few groups face as many misconceptions within their new countries as do Muslim immigrants. This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.

A comparative, multi-ethnic study, based on over two thousand interviews, Diaspora by Design examines Muslim populations that have settled in Canada, Britain, Iran, and Palestine. Utilizing hard socio-economic data as well as qualitative analysis, the authors show the remarkable diversity and divisions between Muslim immigrant populations along urban-rural, cultural, class, and gender lines. They argue that integration is a two-way exchange that requires a readiness on the part of the host society to remove barriers that prevent the full social and economic participation of immigrant populations.

Extensively researched and thoughtfully provocative, Diaspora by Design is a much-needed work that provides an accurate and dynamic depiction of the lives of Muslim immigrants away from their homelands.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Haideh Moghissi is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Toronto Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802095437
• ISBN 13: 9780802095435
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 223
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