Religious diversity, Islam, and integration in western Europe - dissecting symbolic, social, and institutional boundary dynamics

• Verfasst von: Koenig, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Religious diversity, Islam, and integration in western Europe - dissecting symbolic, social, and institutional boundary dynamics
• Verf.angabe: Matthias Koenig
• E-Jahr: 2023
• Jahr: 17 October 2023
• Umfang: 27 S.
• Fussnoten: Online veröffentlicht: 17. Oktober 2023 ; Gesehen am 18.12.2023 ; Zusammenfassung in deutscher Sprache
• Weitere Titel: Deutschsprachiger Titel auf der Frontdoor: Religiöse Diversität, Islam und Integration in Westeuropa – Analyse symbolischer, sozialer und institutioneller Grenzdynamiken
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie
• Ort Quelle: Berlin : Springer, 2000
• Jahr Quelle: 2023
• Band/Heft Quelle: (2023), online ahead of print
• ISSN Quelle: 1861-891X
• DOI: doi:10.1007/s11577-023-00911-5
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng ger
• Sach-SW: Boundary paradigm
• Sach-SW: Discrimination
• Sach-SW: Diskriminierung
• Sach-SW: Grenzparadigma
• Sach-SW: Migration
• Sach-SW: Muslim minorities
• Sach-SW: Muslimische Minderheiten
• Sach-SW: Social integration
• Sach-SW: Soziale Integration
• K10plus-PPN: 1876291788

Abstract

Religious diversity and, in particular, the presence of Islam is often perceived as a threat to national solidarity and social cohesion across Western Europe. Reviewing and synthesizing compartmentalized research literature on religion and immigrant integration, this article scrutinizes symbolic, social, and institutional boundary processes and their underlying micro-level mechanisms. First, it showcases the relative brightness of religiously coded symbolic boundaries that is sustained by anti-Muslim prejudices among the majority as well as by the intergenerational transmission of Muslim religiosity. Second, it discusses whether and how religious differences translate into social boundaries, through both discrimination and religiously based (self-)segregation on the labor market, in education, and in social networks. Third, it traces how interactive sequences of Muslims’ claims for recognition and public policy responses have led to institutional boundary shifts under the influence of constitutional law and European human rights and anti-discrimination directives. The article concludes by discussing scenarios of how macro-level processes of symbolic, social, and institutional boundary transformation interrelate, thus raising broader questions on religious diversity and integration in Western European nation-states.