Book Launch: Diaspora By Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond

Diaspora By Design: Muslim Immigrants in Canada and Beyond
(University of Toronto Press)
by Haideh Moghissi, Saeed Rahnema, Mark J. Goodman

Diaspora By Design challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.

A comparative, multi-ethnic study, based on over two thousand interviews, Diaspora by Design examines Muslim populations that have settled in Canada, Britain, Iran, and Palestine. Utilizing hard socio-economic data as well as qualitative analysis, the authors show the remarkable diversity and divisions between Muslim immigrant populations along urban-rural, cultural, class, and gender lines. They argue that integration is a two-way exchange that requires a readiness on the part of the host society to remove barriers that prevent the full social and economic participation of immigrant populations.

THURSDAY MARCH 19, 7pm
toronto women's bookstore
73 harbord street
refreshments provided.
we regret our washroom is not wheelchair accessible.
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