Introduction

Abstract

This work is an attempt to compare and contrast the contemporary regimes of migration, integration and citizenship of Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands vis-à-vis Muslim origin immigrants and their descendants with a particular reference to a qualitative and quantitative research that I conducted on the Euro-Muslims in general, and Euro-Turks in particular, residing in those countries. As someone working on Turkish transnational communities in Germany since 1994 with a special focus on the ways in which German-Turkish youth cultures have incorporated themselves into the globalizing youth cultures, I decided to expand the research into a larger domain covering the construction and articulation processes of social, political and cultural identities of Turkish-origin immigrants living in Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. The scope of research then covered the North African origin immigrants and their descendants as well.