Benchmarking Muslim Well-Being in Europe

Examining an urgent topic for many nations around the world, this book aims to reverse the commonly held belief that recent Muslim immigrants to Europe have failed to integrate satisfactorily into European culture. The authors look at Muslim communities in Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom-countries with a range of differing strategies for coordinating ethnic and state identities. Using the European Parliament's benchmarking guidelines, surveys, and other data, they find several locations where Muslims are in fact more integrated than popularly assumed. Additionally, they show that many Muslim communities, despite a desire for fuller integration, find their opportunities blocked.

Dr Pamela Irving Jackson, a Fulbright scholar, is Director of the Justice Studies Program and Professor of Sociology at Rhode Island College, where she received the Thorp Professorship for Outstanding Scholarship and the Maixner Distinguished Teaching Award. She served on the editorial board of the American Sociological Review. Dr Peter Doerschler is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, and recipient of a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). He is a Fulbright scholar and his primary interests include European politics, political behaviour and environmental politics.