Assaad E. Azzi & Xenia Chryssochoou 
Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies 
A Multidisciplinary Perspective

Identity and Participation in Culturally Diverse Societies
presents an original discussion in an edited volume of how the
links between identity, political participation, radicalization,
and integration can provide a scientific understanding of the
complex issue of coexistence between groups in culturally diverse
societies.

* Offers a scientific understanding of the complex issue of
coexistence between groups in culturally diverse societies

* Utilizes original theory which combines social psychology,
sociology, and political science

* Includes an original and extensive discussion of combining the
concepts of identity and diversity

* Innovatively and engagingly employs the latest research and
state-of-the-art theory

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Editors and Contributors.

Introduction (Xenia Chryssochoou, Assaad E. Azzi, Bert
Klandermans, and Bernd Simon).

Part I Development, (Re)Construction, and Expression of
Collective Identities (Xenia Chryssochoou).

1 The Role of Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Class in Shaping Greek
American Identity, 1890-1927: A Historical Analysis
(Yannis G. S. Papadopoulos).

2 Religious Identity and Socio-Political Participation: Muslim
Minorities in Western Europe (Maykel Verkuyten).

3 The Bicultural Identity Performance of Immigrants (Shaun
Wiley and Kay Deaux).

4 Perceptions of (In)compatibility between Identities and
Participation in the National Polity of People belonging to Ethnic
Minorities (Xenia Chryssochoou and Evanthia Lyons).

Part II Collective Identity and Political Participation
(Bernd Simon).

5 Winners and Losers in the Europeanization of Public Policy
Debates: Empowering the Already Powerful? (Ruud Koopmans and
Paul Statham).

6 New Ways of Understanding Migrant Integration in Europe (P.
R. Ireland).

7 Collective Identity and Political Engagement (Bernd
Simon).

8 Collective Identity, Political Participation, and the Making
of the Social Self (Stephen Reicher and John Drury).

Part III Radicalization (Bert Klandermans).

9 Radicalization (Jacquelien van Stekelenburg and Bert
Klandermans).

10 Citizenship Regimes and Identity Strategies Among Young
Muslims in Europe (Catarina Kinnvall and Paul
Nesbitt-Larking).

11 Going All the Way: Politicization and Radicalization of the
Hofstad Network in the Netherlands (Martijn de Koning and Roel
Meijer).

12 Trajectories of Ideologies and Action in US Organized Racism
(Kathleen M. Blee).

13 No Radicalization without Identification: How Ethnic Dutch
and Dutch Muslim Web Forums Radicalize Over Time (Jacquelien van
Stekelenburg, Dirk Oegema, and Bert Klandermans).

Part IV Integration (Assaad E. Azzi).

14 Immigrant Acculturation: Psychological and Social Adaptations
(John W. Berry).

15 Ethnic Social Networks, Social Capital, and Political
Participation of Immigrants (Dirk Jacobs and Jean
Tillie).

16 Naturalization as Boundary Crossing: Evidence from Labor
Migrants in Germany (Claudia Diehl and Michael Blohm).

17 Confronting the Past to Create a Better Future: The
Antecedents and Benefits of Intergroup Forgiveness (Nyla R.
Branscombe and Tracey Cronin).

Conclusion: From Identity and Participation to Integration or
Radicalization: A Critical Appraisal (Assaad E. Azzi).

Name Index.

Subject Index.

Über den Autor

Assaad Azzi is Professor of Psychology and Director of the
Social Psychology unit at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
His research focuses on identity, resource-distribution, and the
perception of justice and injustice in majority-minority relations.

Xenia Chryssochoou is Associate Professor at Panteion
University, Athens. She currently works on mobility, migration and
justice and on perceptions of globalization and political
participation.

Bert Klandermans is Professor in Applied Social
Psychology at the VU-University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He is
co-editor (with Suzanne Staggenborg, 2002) of Social Movements,
Protest, and Contention and co-author, most recently, of the
Handbook of Social Movements Across Disciplines (with Conny
Roggeband, 2007).

Bernd Simon is Professor of Social and Political
Psychology and one of the Directors of the Institute of Psychology
at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, Germany. His
research investigates inter- and intragroup processes.