ABSTRACT
Persons of Islamic faith have a long and troubled history in Europe. Modern mass migration of Muslims into European Union nations began in the late decades of the 20th century and has continued into the 21st, with something near fifty million Muslims now resident in Europe, about 6% of the total population. The workplaces chosen for study are described by the authors as "white" organizations, which is to say they are workplaces based on a Western, Caucasian, atheist, or Christian worldview, into which Muslim employees must find a way to fit. Overall, high-skilled well-educated Muslims employed in "white" organizations in the Netherlands accommodate their Muslim values to workplace norms and demands via three tactics, none entirely satisfactory: adapting and negotiating; avoiding; or rejecting and resisting. Religious assimilation of Muslim populations in the Netherlands, and by implication, throughout Europe, does not appear to be in the cards.
