Diaspora By Design - Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond

Informationen zum Autor Haideh Moghissi is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University. Klappentext 'Important and timely, Diaspora by Design treats a sensitive subject with deftness and sophistication. Its well-designed empirical study of minority communities drives home the message hard and accurately, through fact as well as philosophy. Its policy implications are critical at a time when the "truthiness" of accepted prejudices sorely needs to be questioned.'-Radhika Desai, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba Zusammenfassung This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous! religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.

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• Authors: Mark Goodman, Mark J. Goodman, Mark J. Rahnema Goodman, Haideh Moghissi, Haideh Rahnema Moghissi, Haideh/ Rahnema Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.02.2009
• EAN: 9780802095435
• ISBN: 978-0-8020-9543-5
• No. of pages: 223
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore