Good cities, good practices: systematization of a theoretical and methodological framework for local actions designed to combat religious discrimination

Abstract

The Muslim population of Western Europe composed of at
least 13 million individuals, brings together primarily people
resulting from working class immigrants from the second
half of the twentieth century. Its roots are found deep in the
Turkish countryside, in the Balkans and, of course, in the old
colonies: the countries of the Maghreb, the Indo-Pakistani
sub-continent, the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa and
Southeast Asia. There exists moreover, relatively low but
growing numbers, of converts of European extraction. This
paper presents the theoritical and methodological approach
of whole of the project "Faiths and Social cohesion".