Description:
This book challenges the common misperceptions of Muslim immigrants as a homogeneous, religiously driven group and identifies the tensions they experience within their host countries.
Brief description: Haideh Moghissi is a professor in the Department of Sociology at York University.
Review Quotes: 'Important and timely, Diaspora by Design treats a sensitive subject with deftness and sophistication. Its well-designed empirical study of minority communities drives home the message hard and accurately, through fact as well as philosophy. Its policy implications are critical at a time when the "truthiness" of accepted prejudices sorely needs to be questioned.'--Radhika Desai, Department of Political Studies, University of Manitoba