Europe has repeatedly sustained unassimilated ethno-linguistic enclaves for centuries.

Evidence

Historical factors also may be adduced, militating toward an on-going process of social isolation of the Muslim communities in Europe. Unlike the United States, European States long have contained tenacious ethno-linguistic minorities, some of substantial size, which, for long periods, remain largely isolated from society around them, as well as more or less fixed in geography. … Small villages of Albanian ethnicity have existed in south central Italy for nearly six hundred years, with little sign of integration into Italian society. German (“Saxon”) minorities in Transylvania never integrated (after the Cold War, they simply left). The long history of European cities containing separate Jewish quarters is further precedent suggesting the plausibility of the Green Ghetto scenario. — Michael A. Reynolds and Thomas D. Grant, The Future of Europe and Its Muslims, 316

Categorization

• SEED: An essay angle: ‘Europe’s Permanent Enclaves’ — the Albanian villages of southern Italy and Transylvanian Saxons as evidence that European integration is the anomaly, not the rule.
• SHARE: Perfect for the friend obsessed with the Arbëreshë villages of Calabria — 600 years of Albanian-speaking Italy.