ABSTRACT
The presence of more than 1 million foreign citizens of Muslim faith in Italy raises a series of questions about how they ought to be integrated or made to coexist with the majority domestic group, and what sort of relationship should be established between the two, as well as between Italian institutions and organized Muslim communities. The focus of discussion is not just Italy’s relations with migrant citizens and an understanding of their demands, but also the constitutive relationship between, on the one hand, the beliefs, lifestyles and claims of migrants, and, on the other, the notions of citizenship, rights, inclusion and coexistence that frame the European-Italian perspective.
