ASC Seminar: Making Room for Islam in the West: Senegalese Muslims in Europe and North America

Cheikh Anta Babou, University of Pennsylvania. Significant international migration from Islamic West Africa to Europe and North America began in the aftermath of World War II with a loosening of the laws that constrained the mobility of French imperial subjects and accelerated between the 1960s and 1990s. West African Muslims have been particularly successful in making room for Islam in the Western world. This seminar will investigate this process of space making and the ways in which Africans from the former French colonies in West Africa, especially Senegal, have been able to negotiate their inclusion in the Western public sphere at a time of increasing tensions with Islam.

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