News Agencies – April 20, 2012 More than twenty French imams urged their parishioners to vote in the presidential elections on April 22nd and May 6th to become “actors in their own change.” In one example, the Suburb Independent Front (le Front des banlieues independent) asked the thousands of Muslims gathered at a mosque…
April 18 In contrast with a predominantly negative public image, a new study Commissioned by the German Islam Conference and carried on by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees and the Center for Turkey Studies and Integration Research, shows that the majority of Muslim Imams have a favorable attitude to dialogue with German…
April 25 The surviving members of a Turkish family, attacked almost 20 years ago in their house by a Neonazi group in the Western German city of Solingen, spoke about their pain and desire for reconciliation between Turks and Germans. The declaration was given during an annual meeting with local politicians. On the…
April 22/14 In an interview with the internet portal Qantara.de, the President of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau Volker Jung spoke about German Muslims and the churches’ answers to the challenges of a changing society. He pointed out how Germany has become a migration society, where there are fully integrated immigrants, born…
This book addresses why some ethnic minority migrant groups have better economic and political integration outcomes than others. The central claim is that social integration leads to trade-offs with economic and political integration. The logic behind this claim is that socially segregated groups may have difficulties interacting with mainstream society but will have more capacity…
