Maghreb Roundtable: Foreigners at Home: North African Emigrant Communities in Crisis
“Muslim” is not the first category in which many European North African immigrants would place themselves, but there is a strong European tendency to see such communities through a religious prism. The tension that now exists between traditional European communities and second- and third-generation immigrants is the result of a stalled process of “partial assimilation.” Children and grandchildren of North African immigrants have thus lost ties to the countries of their families’ origin while facing rejection by their countries of birth. In some cases, pan-Islamic institutions in Europe help fill the gap.
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