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This book highlights the various cultures and religions of Mediterranean countries, and discusses issues related to managing diversity and minority rights, and the role of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. It centers on the interconnectedness between culture, politics, religion, gender, race, migration, and language. To promote a fruitful exchange, the volume considers approaches that integrate social, economic, cultural, religious and political dimensions, and surveys the theoretical, methodological and practical aspects of multiculturalism. The contributions gathered here also debate issues relating to history, modernity, cultural specificities of the region, and their role in the consolidation of peace, democracy, social justice, and development. The book uses an analytic framework coupled with a synthetic method, while providing a roadmap to achieve a better management of pluralism in the Mediterranean area, which will help different populations to live together in harmony and to continue their battle for broadmindedness, acceptance, and coexistence.

Introduction /Moha Ennaji --Morocco and the European Union /Mehdi Lahlou --The Muslim Maghrebi diaspora in Europe: For a renewed dialogue /Moha Ennaji --Women and migration in the context of globalization /Fatima Sadiqi --Moroccan women in the UK: Human capital at the service of development /Moha Ennaji,Fatima Sadiqi --The legacy of migration in the life stories of highly educated Moroccan-Dutch women /Marjo Buitelaar --Democratic access and integration of multilingual non-indigenous minorities: Reference to EuroMoroccans /Abdeslam Jamai --The use of decontextualized language by Moroccan Berber mothers and their children in the Netherlands /Mohammadi Laghzaoui --Religious hospitality and common essentials /Johan Goud --Bhaba's theory of hybridity and the Maghrebi postcolonial condition /Nabil Cherni --Portrayals of migration to the Occident in Maghrebi literature: The early beginnings /Zahia Smail Salhi --Hybridity, purification, and identity: The case of Dutch-Moroccan literature /Michiel Leezenberg --An issue we can all relate to /Abdelkader Benali --Cultural dialogue and writing in the interstice /Jilali El Koudia --Biographies of contributors --Index.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Contextualizing Muslim Diaspora in North America and Europe -- Part I Historical and Anthropological Background -- 1 A Season of Migration to the West: The Arab-Muslim Diaspora in the United States -- Political Ethos and Praxis -- 2 "American Citizens of Arabic-Speaking Stock": The Institute of Arab American Affairs and Questions of Identity in the Debate over Palestine

"Focusing especially on Muslim Moroccan migrants, this book explores how Muslim migrants in Europe contribute to a changing European landscape. Based on the author's fieldwork and readings of media, government reports, and historical and contemporary records, it elucidates how Muslim migrants in Europe suffer from marginalization and Islamophobia while, at the same time, contributing economically, politically, and culturally to their host countries, as well their countries of origin"--

Investigating the connections between multiculturalism, minorities, citizenship, and democracy in North Africa, this book argues that multiculturalism in this region- and in the Arab world at large - has reached a significant level in terms of scale and importance. In the rest of the world, there has been a trend - albeit a contested one - toward a greater recognition of minority rights. The Arab world however, particularly North Africa, seems to be an exception to this trend, as Arab states continue to promote highly unitary and homogenizing ideas of nationhood and state unity.