Since early 2000, the Federation of Islamic Organisations in Europe (FIOE) debated the establishment of a charter for the Muslims of Europe, setting out the general principles for better understanding of Islam, and the bases for the integration of Muslims in society, in the context of citizenship. The FIOE formed a committee to prepare the…
Venue: Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Place du Congrès 1, B-1000 Brussels – Conference Room The Centre of European Policy Studies (CEPS) is organising the IV CHALLENGE Training School on “Integration, Immigration and Citizenship: Local, National, European & International Responses”. The event will take place at CEPS on the 23 & 24 November 2007….
Interior minister Giuliano Amato will visit Rome’s mosque to present a ‘Charter of Values for Citizenship and Integration.’ This is the first public presentation of the symbolic document, seeking to bridge the divide between Muslims and Italian’s Catholic communities, and is aimed at seeking harmonious integration of Italy’s growing immigrant communities.
In recent years, scholarly attention has shifted away from debates on ethnicity to focus on issues of migration and citizenship. Inspired, in part, by earlier studies on European guestworker migration, these debates are fed by the new “transnational mobility”, by the immigration of Muslims, by the increasing importance of human rights law, and by the…
A pilot program funded by the British gov’t is introducing citizenship classes at mosques in the town of Bradford. CAIRO – A pilot program funded by the British government is introducing citizenship classes at mosques in the racially and religiously tense town of Bradford to educate Muslim teens about basic duties and shield them against…
