The Politics of Muslim Integration in Germany and Great Britain

Abstract

The concluding chapter summarizes the main empirical findings and highlights the complexity of discursive repertoires that frame political debates about integration policies in Germany and Great Britain. I discuss how distinct national institutional, legal and discursive opportunity structures offer reference points for minority claims, and demonstrate how currently circulating discourses themselves offer distinct opportunities and constraints for minority actors to challenge structural asymmetries. I summarize how empirical variants of civic republican, multicultural, civic universal and denationalized citizenship have been found to problematize or mask various manifestations of structural inequality. Reflecting on the subject positions facilitated by these four discourses, I elaborate on the implications the findings have for Nancy Fraser’s critique of identity politics as a mode of claims-making.