Dániel Vékony 26th October 2011. Forms of immigartion– Muslims coming to Western-Europe What went wrong and why? Headscarf and France – questions.

Dániel Vékony26th October

2011

Forms of immigartion– Muslims coming to Western-Europe

What went wrong and why? Headscarf and France – questions about

secularism Islamism in Western-Europe „Arab spring” - Islamism and the role of

Europe

Begins after WWII – rebuliding of Eu

Unskilled workers, mainly male – various ways to get to Eu – (former) colonies, bilateral treaties

1973 – things change – families join, rules get stricter

Onwards – family reunification, legal migration, illegal migration, refugees(!)

First wave – unskilled workers, loose out after 1973

Family reunification creates the real social problem – integrating families – challenges with women, children

No strategy for integration – unsuccesful

Probelmatic identities – (w)here do I belong?

Religion fills in the space?

Whose Islam? – parents vs children?

Opportunity for islamism

Multiculturalism

Assimilation

Gastarbeiter

Did it all began in 1989? 1989 1990s Prelude to the Law

Sarkozy’s speech at Le Bourget Stasi Commission Different interest at different stakeholders

Sing-post for the society - redefining what is French and what is not

Catharsis through legislation Changing sense of laïcité Is it a step towards communalism or is it

a step to unify society?

Plus Burqa ban – 2010 – other countries…

As heterogenous as Muslims themselves

Radicals and moderates

Various target-groups, various agendas

Targetting second-, third-generation Muslims

Islamist dissidents take refuge in W-Eu – mainly in London

Spreading of proganda in home country

Khomeini, Ghannouchi

John Bowen – Why the French Don’t Like Headscraves?

Bassam Tibi - Political Islam, World Politics and Europe - Democratic Peace and Euro-Islam versus Global Jihad