Re: Islam in the Age of Flexible Accumulation

[Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 3/8/07, paul phillips <phillipsp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Unfortunately, these long quotes are counterproductive -- I simply
> delete them.  Why can't  Yoshie, etc., summarize in a paragraph and give
> the url so, those that are interested, can read further.  These are
> getting so bad I begin to wonder whether it is worth staying on pen-l or
> not.

The essential point in this case, Jan Nederveen Pieterse's paper, is
that the state still expects and imposes assimilation and/or tries to
manage migrants through shallow official multiculturalism when the
reality -- the welfare state cutting back social and economic programs
that might have promoted assimilation; migrants increasingly staying
plugged into diaspora and other transnational cultural circuits,
through which they form their social identity and through which
conflicts (often created by migrants' new "homes'" governments) travel
-- basically goes against both.  But the summary is not as interesting
as the details that Pieterse brings to discussion.
--
Yoshie
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