Luce Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance
in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World (2008-11)

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About the Project

In the spring of 2009, PIIRS and the Woodrow Wilson School for International and Public Affairs, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, launched the first phase of a three-year research cluster initiative, the Henry Luce Foundation Project on Migration, Participation, and Democratic Governance in the U.S., Europe, and the Muslim World. Principal investigators and coordinators of the research cluster are Rafaela Dancygier, assistant professor of politics and public and international affairs, Amaney Jamal, assistant professor of politics, and Mirjam Künkler, assistant professor of Near Eastern studies

The project introduces key questions, new analytical insights, and novel hypotheses on four topics central to the debate:

• International and domestic dimensions of Muslim incorporation in Europe (Rafaela Dancygier)
• Religion and state relations in five democratizing countries of the Muslim world (Mirjam Künkler)
• War, religion, and democracy and the immediate ways in which intra- and interstate religious conflicts have structured democratization and development trajectories (Amaney Jamal)
• Islamophobia and Muslim-American integration (Amaney Jamal)

 Scholars will convene at PIIRS, Columbia University, and the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, for workshops that explore the impact of locally rooted social movements on world politics and transnational relations on social movements.

The academic year 2009–10 will see the second phase of the project—a residence year for professors Dancygier, Jamal, and Künkler as fellows at PIIRS—in place. During this phase, the professors will pursue their own research and bring in contributors from around the world for short-term satellite conferences that will enable an exchange of ideas with members of a larger community.  As residents the Princeton professors will be on leave from their respective departments.

The third phase of the research cluster, scheduled for 2010–11, will be a year of public scholarship.

For more information contact Audrey Mainzer, program manager.

Faculty

Rafaela Dancygieris an assistant professor of politics an public and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Her research interests are in comparative politics and comparative political economy and focus on the domestic consequences of international immigration, the political incorporation of immigrants, the relationship between ethnic diversity and redistribution, and the determinants of ethnic conflict. She is currently working on a book that explores how immigration regimes and welfare states ieffect interethnic conflict and immigrant integration in Western Europe. Ph.D. Yale University.

Amaney Jamal is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and the Harold Willis Dodds Presidential University Preceptor. Her current research focuses on democratization and the politics of civic engagement in the Middle East and Muslim and Arab Americans and the pathways that structure their patterns of political and civic engagement in the US. Her most recent book is an edited volume with Nadine Naber that looks at the patterns and influences of Arab and Muslim American racialization processes (2008). Her current project is a book on citizenship in the Arab world. Jamal is principal investigator of "Mosques and Civic Incorporation of Muslim Americans," funded by the Muslims in New York Project at Columbia University; co-PI of the "Detroit Arab American Study," a sister survey to the Detroit Area Study, funded by the Russell Sage Foundation; co-PI of the Arab Barometer Project; and senior advisor on the Pew Research Center Project on Islam in America. Ph.D. University of Michigan.        

Mirjam Künkler is an assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern
Studies. Her research interests are in comparative politics and political theory and focus on comparative relations between religion and state in the Muslim world. She is currently working on a book that analyzes processes of regime transformation in Iran (1989-2005) and Indonesia (1974-1998), particularly with regard to how social movements and religion-state relations bore on the erosion or stabilization of political rule. Künkler is co-PI of the project "Religious Parties in the Muslim World" funded by the United States Institute for Peace (USIP), and co-PI of the "Iran Social Science Data Project" funded by the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). Ph.D. Columbia University.

Events >>>

FALL 2009

Luce Speaker Series on  Religion, Democracy, and Conflict
Mondays at 4:30 p.m. in 216 Burr Hall

This series explores topics such as religion and war, religion and conflict, religion and immigrant integration, religion and development, and religion and democracy.
                  
 Cosponsored by the Center for the Study of Religion

September 21 CANCELLED
Religion and Politics: Continuities from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic
Karen Barkey, Columbia University

October 5
TBA
Phillip Connor, Princeton University

October 12
Free Speech or Free Hate? The Danish Cartoon Controversy in the European Legal Context
Erik Bleich, Middlebury College

October 19
Religion and International Relations Theory
Jack Snyder, Columbia University

October 26
TBA
Ahmet Kuru, San Diego State University

November 9
TBA
Jonathan Fox, Bar Ilan University (Israel)

November 16
TBA
Monica Duffy Toft, Harvard University

November 23
TBA
Matthias Koenig, University of Gottingen (Germany)

November 30
TBA
Steven Fish, University of California-Berkeley

December 7
TBA
Manfred Brocker, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
and 2009-2010 Luce Project Fellow

Past Events >>>

March 27-28, 2009
Workshop
Determinants of Muslim Incorporation in Europe--Workshop schedule and participants
Princeton University

April 2-3, 2009
Indonesia, Islam And Democracy: Comparative Perspectives--Agenda and participants
Columbia University

Publications >>>

Determinants of Muslim Incorporation in Europe
 Princeton University
 March 27-28, 2009

Erik Bleich
Associate Professor of Political Science
Middlebury College, Vermont
"Where do Muslims Stand on Ethno-Racial Hierarchies in Britain and France?"

Jocelyne Cesari
Political Sociologist
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Muslims in western Europe after 9/11: local and global components of the integration process


Jennifer Hochschild
Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government / Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Modeling Immigrant Political Incorporation

Immigrant Political Incorporation: Comparing Success in the United States and Europe

Immigration Regimes and School Regimes: Which States Promote Rapid Immigrant Incorporation?

Marc Morje Howard
Associate Professor Department of Government
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
"The Impact of the Far Right on Citizenship Policy: Explaining Continuity and Change"

Sean McLaughlin
University of Leeds, U.K.
The State, ‘New’ Muslim Leaderships and Islam as a ‘Resource’ for Public Engagement in Britain

Mosques and the Public Space: Conflict and Cooperation in Bradford

Tiberj Vincent
Sciences-Po, France
Anti-Semitism in an ethnically diverse France: questioning and explaining the specificities of African-, Turkish- and Maghrebian-French.

Divided They Really Stand ? The France plurielle case

Is the “Muslim Question” a Religious Problem in Western Democracies? Diversity and Polarization Among French Muslims

Race, class and religion: the political alignments of the "French Muslims"