Ethnicity, Identity and Faith in the Current Migratory Crisis: Continuity and Change in Migrants' Religiousness in Southern Europe
Intro -- Preface -- Religious Identity Matters -- The Need of Being Focalized at Local Level -- Going Beyond the Status Quo: Changes in Ethnicities, Generations and Ways of Believing -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Research Orientation and Methods -- Plan of the Book -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Much More Than a Question of Borders -- 1.1 Setting the Scene -- 1.2 Foreigners, Always a Challenge for Nation States -- 1.3 It's a European Issue, Some Say: Not at All, Others Answer -- 1.4 From Integration Models to Selection Procedures -- 1.5 The Great Illusion: Between Reality and Perceptions -- 1.6 When Will We Be Accepted? I'm What My Ethnic and Religious Background Say I Am -- References -- Chapter 2: Interrupted Routes: Migratory Itineraries and Rhetoric Concerning Difference-News from Italy -- 2.1 It Always Happens: Becoming an Immigration Country Means Following Paths Already Taken -- 2.2 Us Against Them, Us and Them: The Never-Ending Diversity Debate -- 2.3 Not Just Being but Also Becoming a Multicultural Country. The Role of Schools -- 2.4 Integration Paths Through Girls' Perspectives -- 2.5 Migrations and Islam: Still an Open Sore -- 2.6 The (Ambivalent) Desire for a Selective Migration Policy -- 2.7 Italy for Italians by Origin. A Citizenship Law Out of Time -- References -- Chapter 3: Religion: A Neglected Variable in the Migratory Routes -- 3.1 Rediscovering Cities as Multireligious Arenas -- 3.2 Migrants, Ethnicity, Faith -- 3.3 Religious Places in Emigration: Bastions of Defence, Occasions of Memory -- 3.4 The Daily Life of the Faithful: Creed and Associationism -- 3.5 Unwelcomed Believers in the Pope's Country -- References -- Chapter 4: Being a Muslim in the Diaspora: New Opportunities and New Challenges -- 4.1 Elements of the Debate -- 4.2 Attempts at Religious Cohabitation. Towns and Cities in the Mirror.