Becoming Europe: Immigration, Integration, and the Welfare State

by Patrick Ireland

Across Europe, millions of immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have often had difficulties fitting into their new societies. Most analysts have laid the blame on a clash of cultures. Becoming Europe provides evidence that institutions matter more than culture in determining the shape of ethnic relations. Patrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect blithely to anticipate unavoidable conflict between Muslim immigrants and European host societies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822958457
• ISBN13: 9780822958451
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"