Biographical Note

 

Dr Valerie Amiraux

Valérie Amiraux is a Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique since September 2000. After the completion of her PhD (1997) in political science on Muslim Turkish associations in Germany, she was appointed as a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute where she was co- ordinating the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies. Her research topics focus on Muslims in Europe and more specifically on the institutional path toward recognition of Islam in various countries. Her publications include:
Acteurs de l'islam entre Allemagne et Turquie. Parcours militants et expériences religieuses, Paris, L'Harmattan, coll. Logiques politiques, 2001; The Situation of Muslims in France, in Monitoring the EU Accession Process : Minority Protection, volume II. Case Studies in Selected Member States, Country Reports, Budapest, OSI, 2002, pp. 69-140 (accessible sur le site www.eumap.org); Turkish Political Islam and Europe: Story of an Opportunistic Intimacy , in J. Nielsen, S. Allievi (eds.), Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe, Leiden, Brill, 2003, pp. 146-169; The Perception of Political Islam in Europe after September 11: Changing Paradigm or Changing actors ?, in A. Karam (ed), Transnational Political Islam, Pluto Books, 2003 (forthcoming)

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