The contributions in this volume consider the question of migrant agency, how Western societies are both transforming migrants, and being transformed by them. It is informed by debates on the new 'transnational mobility', the immigration of Muslims, the increasing importance of human rights law, and the critical attention paid to women migrants.

Autorentext
GÖKÇE YURDAKUL is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brock University, Canada. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. Her teaching and research interests include migration, citizenship, race and ethnicity, gender, and women. She has published in edited books and academic journals, such as Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies , German Politics and Society and Soziale Welt . She is now doing research on how Turkish immigrants and Jews relate to one another in the German diaspora.

Y. MICHAL BODEMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto, Canada. Today, his areas of research and teaching include race and ethnic relations, classical sociological theory, qualitative methods, Jewish studies, and especially German-Jewish relations and memory. He has published numerous articles and books on Jews in Germany, notably his book, Gedächnistheater. Die jüdische Gemeinschaft und ihre deutsche Erfindung , ( Theatre of Memory. The Jewish Community and its German Invention , 1996). He is conducting further research on Jews in contemporary Germany. His most recent monograph is A Jewish Family in Germany Today: An Intimate Portrait (Duke University Press, 2004).

Gökçe Yurdakul and Michal Bodemann are the editors of Migration, Citizenship, Ethnos (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006).

Inhalt
Introduction; Y.Michal Bodemann PART I: THE CHANGING NATURE OF MIGRATION IN NORTH AMERICA The Changing Nature of Migration in the 21st Century: Implications for Integration Strategies; A.Zolberg The Economic Adaptation of Past and Present Immigrants: Lessons from a Comparative-Historical Approach; E.Morawska Citizenship and Pluralism: Multiculturalism in a World of Global Migration; I.Bloemraad PART II: DIASPORA, RELIGION AND COUNTER-TRADITIONS Islam and Multicultural Societies: A Transatlantic Comparison; J.Cesari The Changing Contours of Immigrant Religious Life; P.Levitt Crafting an Identity in the Diaspora: Iranian Immigrants in the United States; V.M.Moghadam PART III: IMMIGRANT WORKERS AND THE NATION-STATE Nation-State Building Projects and the Politics of Transnational Migration: Locating Salvadoran Migrants in Canada, the United States and El Salvador; P.Landolt Freedom to Discriminate: National State Sovereignty and Temporary Visa Workers in North America; N.Sharma Professionals and Saints: How Post-Soviet Immigrants Do Home-Care Work; C.Solari PART IV: IMMIGRANT INTEGRATION INTO SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS 'We Are Together Strong'?: The Unhappy Marriage between Migrant Associations and Trade Unions in Germany; G.Yurdakul Liberal Values and Illiberal Cultures: The Question of Sharia Tribunals in Ontario; D.Forbes