Competition from other immigrant groups can intensify Muslim marginalization.

Evidence

The possibility exists that the Muslim minority will become diluted. This is not dilution in the sense of inter-marriage or assimilation, but in the sense of loosing numerical dominance in certain urban precincts. … By the same token, however, the existence of a non-Muslim labor pool could act to marginalize Muslims even more. If, for example, Latin American immigrants began to best Muslim immigrants in the competition for low-level jobs, then the circumstances of the Muslim immigrants would worsen. Their alienation from Westerners likely would increase, and this would lead ghetto-ization to intensifY. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 330

Categorization

• XREF: Evokes the US literature on how successive immigrant waves displace their predecessors in the low-wage labor queue, and the black-Korean grocer conflicts of 1990s Los Angeles.
• BMF: Echoes the inter-immigrant tension in Hanif Kureishi’s and Zadie Smith’s London novels — though not on the library list; consider adding Smith’s White Teeth.