Europe’s Muslims cluster in hyper-concentrated urban neighborhoods

Evidence

Over the past decades, Muslims and Islam in Europe have increasingly been framed and approached through the specter of demographics, in which the optic of migration, always already framing Muslims as recent arrivals to Europe (thereby erasing both long-standing colonial entanglements and century old and deep-rooted Islamic presences in various parts of Europe), has been increasingly joined by an optic of birth rates. — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 89 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Muslim neighborhood segregation persists across race and counters the middle-class Muslim stereotype — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 485; Muslim visibility in Europe paradoxically increases perceived non-integration — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 708; Framing Muslims demographically erases long histories of European Muslim presence — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”: The…, 89 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Framing Muslims demographically erases long histories of European Muslim presence #complicates (0.75) — Sarah Bracke and Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar, “They Love Death as We Love Life”, 89