Integrating Islam: Political And Religious Challenges in Contemporary France

by Jonathan Laurence, Justin Vaïsse

"Portrays the more complex reality of Muslim integration into French politics and society. Special attention devoted to the policies developed by successive French governments to encourage integration and discourage extremism"--Provided by publisher.

Genres: France

342 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2006

Reviews

[Wordwizard]

Read for work (Civic Engagement research team). Interesting and informative; writing could have been better, but it was clear enough. The conclusion chapter seems tacked on, with implications for US-French collaboration stuff that they hadn't mentioned before. You're doing research on the situation in France, guys, and that's fine; it's hard to get data on issues like this in France, so you're more than fine; you don't need to shoehorn other things in.

[Ariel]

I read this book for a class in European Politics, and I much preferred this to Christopher Caldwell's Reflection on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West. Where Caldwell resorts to fear-mongering, Laurence uses France as a case-study where struggles and successes can be inventoried in equal measure. Lots of solid data provided to back up his analyses.