La sfida del meticciato nella migrazione musulmana. Una ricerca sul territorio milanese

[Autom. eng. transl.] Faced with the challenges of migration from Muslim countries, the cultural category of hybridisation represents an adequate key to understanding the path of effective exchange and encounter between people and community realities belonging to different reference cultures. The contributions collected in the volume intend to deepen the theme of the cultural encounter, based on the results of a wide quantitative and qualitative research promoted by the Oasis Foundation and conducted in collaboration by the University Center for Studies and Research on Family of the Catholic University of Milan and Foundation ISMU. Moving from different disciplinary perspectives, the Muslim realities present in the Milan area and the processes of possible hybridisation have been investigated, brought to light by directly questioning a sample of first and second generation Muslims and some organized realities (Islamic and otherwise) on the forms and conditions that make the cultural and religious encounter feasible. A picture of a very articulated and differentiated Muslim migration emerges within it: scenarios in which the possibilities of exchange and meeting are felt to be real and in fact are practiced; numerically consistent situations that express a substantial indifference towards the Other; positions where the difficulty of integration on levels that involve the social, cultural and personal level is more evident. The elements that determine these different profiles are manifold: linguistic competence, generational difference, religious experience as a factor of openness and, finally, the possibility of mutual recognition.