Gianni, Matteo

Accommodating to Swiss Religious Pluralism: Interrogating Muslim Integration and Swiss Citizenship
2016

Multiculturalism has increasingly become a controversial category in contemporary European democracies over the past decade (Joppke, 2004; Vertovec, 2010). The call for what David Cameron called a “more muscular liberalism” – namely, a limitation of the laissez-faire policy that has long characterized the British model of the incorporation of cultural minorities – has become the default position in almost all Western societies. The issue of the accommodation of the Muslims’ presence plays a crucial role in calling into question policies of difference that were put in place in the 90s (see Brubaker, 2001).