Tariq Modood

Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics and public policy and director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol, UK

Multiculturalism, citizenship and national identity

The relationship between ethnic, religious and social communities in some western European states is surrounded by a sense of crisis. The atmospherics of this crisis - immigration, visible difference, tension

By Tariq Modood

/ 16 May 2007

The liberal dilemma: integration or vilification?

The origins of the infamous Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed do not lie in an attempt to offer contemporary comment, let alone satire, but the desire to illustrate a

By Tariq Modood

/ 8 Feb 2006

Remaking multiculturalism after 7/7

In spring 2005, I published a book Multicultural Politics: Racism, Ethnicity and Muslims in Britain which argued that by making progress towards the goal of multicultural equality and acceptance, and

By Tariq Modood

/ 28 Sep 2005

Muslims and European multiculturalism

There is an anti-Muslim wind blowing across the European continent. One factor is a perception that Muslims are making politically exceptional, culturally unreasonable or theologically alien demands upon European states.

By Tariq Modood

/ 14 May 2003