REPORT ON MEDIA CONTENT (WP2) IS AVAILABLE

In WP2 cultural identity and ways of dealing with differences are studied by means of a content analysis of public debates in the mass media on Islam and the integration of Muslim immigrants. After 9/11 the media coverage about Muslims has increased compared to the years before.

Islam and Muslims are certainly a salient issue in public debates.

However, the debate is not only about Muslims, but also shaped by them.

Governments and Muslim organisations are the two actors making the most of claims in the public debate and their claims are very much dependent on national characteristics. The media content analysis allows for determining the role of EU as an actor and how the institutional and cultural particularities of each state entail different ways of dealing with Muslims.

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