There are relatively few books that provide comparative analysis of European cities in relation to immigrants and political participation. This fresh and insightful volume analyzes how the presence of immigrants is perceived in politics, how this affects their status and how far minorities are able to (politically) participate in European cities.

Michael Alexander is finishing his PhD thesis at the Amsterdam Study Centre for the Metropolitan Environment, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Meindert Fennema is Professor of Political Science and programme leader at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Romain Garbaye is lecturer in Anglophone Studies and Political Science at the Universite Paris iv Sorbonne in Paris, France Karen Kraal is an anthropologist and researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Hans Mahnig worked before his untimely death in 2001 as a political scientist at the Swiss Forum for Migration Studies in Neuchatel, Switzerland M. Margarida Marques is Professor in the Department of Sociology and researcher at SociNova, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Lisbon New University, Portugal Marco Martiniello is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Centre d'Etudes de l'Ethnicite et des Migrations, Universite de Liege, Belgium Damian Moore is Doctor in Political Science and works at the Universite de Droit, d'Economie et des Sciences d'Aix-Marseille, Institut d'Etudes Politiques d'Aix-en-Provence, France Rinus Penninx is Professor of Ethnic Studies and Director of the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Rui Santos was Professor in the Department of Sociology and researcher at Soci-Nova, Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, Lisbon New University, Portugal Jean Tillie is senior researcher and programme leader at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam, the Netherlands Steven Vertovec is Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, United Kingdom