Objective
This Project starts from the premiss that public discourse and policy-making have converged recently, so as to highlight some of the negative effects of the drive to enhance "economic growth and competitiveness", and in particular the manner in which this may have contributed to an increase of the "social exclusion and marginalisation" for different groups within the European Union. This concern has also focused attention on the need to produce new knowledge on both the forms and processes of "social exclusion", that can contribute to the initiation of policies that will enhance "social cohesion" and effective processes of "social re-integration", and thus contribute to "sustainable economic development". This Project will engage in this debate, and intends to make a contribution, by presenting an analytical and comparative account (Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Italy and Switzerland), of a particularly important and increasingly "visible" European ethno-religious community, which exemplifies many of the "characteristics" of social exclusion and marginalisation, namely the European Muslims.
The changing structure of European employment, and especially the drive to attain greater "flexibility" in employment relations, thus encouraging "informal" employment practices, will constitute a particular focus. Thus, the Project will explore simultaneously, increasing "flexibility" in employment practices and the increasing "social exclusion and marginalisation" of European Muslims, seeking to determine the relationship between the two. This will be achieved by ascertaining the degree to which European Muslims are involved in "flexible" employment practices and in which areas of the European economy, delineating which European Muslim social categories are primarily involved, and exploring the reasons for their involvement in such employment practices. In this respect, the Project intends to contribute to the formulation of policies that aim to re-integrate "casualised" labour.
In pursuing this parallel objective, the Project will focus specifically on the fact that the increase in "flexible" employment practices also coincides with both the emergence of "new" value systems among European Muslim (e.g. the social segregation of women), and the substantial increase of "new" Muslim immigrants (legal and illegal) in the European Union (e.g. Albanians in Greece and Italy). This will enable the Project to ascertain the extent to which there is an articulation between these socio-cultural (Muslim women workers and immigrants) and employment ("homework" and "casualised" labour) phenomena, which may be contributing inadvertently to an accentuation of the fact of "social exclusion and marginalisation for ALL European Muslims, irrespective of their gender and/or their "legality" It is such a focus that will permit the Project to contribute to the formulation of European policies - with regard to "formalising" women's informal employment, and "regularising" new immigrant flows - with specific recommendations that derive from an informed understanding of the role of socio-cultural and religious dimensions. This, of course, achieves central significance for both national and European policy-makers, given the evidence of the role of "Resurgent Islam" as an organising principle for socio-political and cultural action within Europe. The issues to be researched are relatively new and innovative. For conventional European social science assumes that communities of immigrant and/or ethnic origin invariably follow a course characterised by the privatisation of religion. Thus, the refusal of an increasingly large proportion of European Muslims to adhere to this model, for reasons that will be investigated by this Project, has generated many misconceptions about Muslims and Islam. "muslim Voices" have been interpreted as the "Muslim Threat", and as such European social scientists and the media have inadvertently contributed to an accentuation of the "social exclusion and marginalisation" of this section of European society. Instead, this Project will develop and use a variety of disciplinary approaches and new research methodologies with the intention of enabling the different "Muslim Voices" to participate in the national and European dialogue that aims to develop effective policies of social integration within European society, and thus enhance Europe's "sustainable economic development" and international competitiveness. This Project, therefore, intends to present and promote a "bottom-up" contribution to the European policy-formulation agenda.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- humanities philosophy, ethics and religion religions islam
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- social sciences other social sciences development studies development economics
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
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