| ID | 187513 |
| Title Proper | Integration, transnationalism and transnational Islam |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Dikici, Erdem |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Conventional frameworks of immigrant integration in Western Europe are conceptualised within a nation-state framework of thinking. Transnational ties, relations, activities, and attachments of immigrants as well as transnational state and non-state actors have largely been neglected. This paper introduces/promotes a balanced theoretical approach to study immigrant integration in contemporary Western Europe, namely, integration as a three-way process and negotiation, which takes both national and transnational contexts into account together. To further elaborate on the three-way approach, the paper examines transnational Islam, as a form of transnationalism writ large, which has received enormous negative publicity with a particular emphasis on violent/jihadist networks, and is often conceived as an inhibiter of the Muslim integration. Applied in transnational Islam case, the three-way approach indicates that integration and transnationalism are not necessarily mutually exclusive; transnational Islam and Muslim organisations are diverse, thereby, must be studied as such, and some forms of the latter promote Muslim integration into Western European societies. |
| `In' analytical Note | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power Vol. 29, No.6; Dec 2022: p.863-882 |
| Journal Source | Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2022-12 29, 6 |
| Key Words | Multiculturalism ; Integration ; Transnationalism ; Methodological Nationalism ; Transnational Islam ; Three-way Approach |