Multiculturalism is abandoned once minority culture stops being market-friendly

Evidence

If, as Christian Joppke remarks, multiculturalism’s “focus on culture takes attention away from other, perhaps more important sources of minority discrimination, most notably socio-economic inequalities,” then the assertion of its compatibility with neoliberalism has been accompanied in recent years by a more forthright advocacy of a secular social liberalism that marks the boundary between acceptable “integrated” practices and values, on the one hand, and self-segregating fundamentalist ones, on the other. The recent repudiation of multiculturalism marks at one and the same time the limits of multicultural tolerance when its object ceases to be “market friendly” and an attempt to ring-fence European values by defining them against their opposite—the radicalized Muslim. — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 165

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s guiding interest: the boundary between integrated/acceptable vs. self-segregating/fundamentalist practices is exactly the kind of critical vocabulary usable for reading Hamid and Naqvi.
• SEED: Angle: tracing how ‘acceptable integration’ is defined economically rather than culturally — who gets to be the good minority.