Marc Helbling Is There a Religious Bias Against Muslim Immigrants?
Marc Helbling is Professor of Political Sociology at the Department of Political Science at the University of Bamberg and a Research Fellow at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) where he was head of the Emmy-Noether research group ‚Immigration Policies in Comparison (IMPIC). He was a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a visiting scholar at the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University and at the Centre for European Studies at New York University. Helbling’s research is dedicated to immigration and citizenship policies, nationalism, xenophobia/islamophobia, the accommodation of Islam and right-wing populism in Europe. He was an elected member of the Young Academy at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and received the 2011 Young Scholar Research Award from the Mayor of Berlin.
Area of Research
Political Sociology
since 2015
Full Professor of Political Sociology
University of Bamberg (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg) (more details)
Department of Political Science
since 2013
Faculty Member
Humboldt University of Berlin (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences
since 2011
Head of the Emmy-Noether Research Group “Immigration Policies in Comparison”
Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
2014-2014
Visiting Scholar
European University Institute
2014-2014
Visiting Scholar
University of Oxford
Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS)
2014-2014
Visiting Scholar
The University of Sydney
2014-2014
Visiting Lecturer
University of Lucerne
Department for Political Science
2012-2012
Visiting Lecturer and Research Scholar
Die Junge Akademie
2011-2011
Visiting Scholar
Harvard University
Centre for European Studies
2010-2015
Elected Member
Die Junge Akademie
2010-2010
Visiting Lecturer
University of Lucerne
Department for Political Science
2009-2011
Senior Researcher
Berlin Social Science Centre (WZB)
Research unit “Migration, Integration, Transnationlization”
2008-2008
Visiting Scholar
McGill University
Department for Political Science
2007-2009
Lecturer and Researcher
University of Zurich
Center for Comparative and International Studies
2005-2006
Visiting Scholar
New York University
Centre for European Studies
2002-2007
Researcher and Teaching Assistant
University of Zurich
Center for Comparative and International Studies
2002-2002
Research Assistant
University of Lausanne
Department for Political and International Studies
2007
PhD Political Science
University of Zurich
2002
Master in Political Science
University of Lausanne
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University of Bamberg (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg)
The University of Bamberg, with more than 13,000 students, is among Germany‘s medium-sized universities. Its main areas of academic focus lie in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Economics, Business Administration and Human Sciences. These are rounded out by numerous programmes in application-oriented computer science. Cooperation between academia, commerce, culture and society benefits all parties: scholars investigate concrete issues and, together with their students, contribute to the implementation of potential solutions. Since the founding of the University of Bamberg in 1647, it is the people who have been its top priority. The close proximity of students and researchers provides for excellent advisory services, personal communication and interdisciplinary studies. The university currently offers roughly 100 programmes at the bachelor‘s and master‘s level. (Source: University of Bamberg)
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The research presented in this video explores attitudes towards immigrants and their religious rights in Western societies, based on survey data. MARC HELBLING finds that religiosity and liberal values are key variables: Individuals with liberal values are generally more tolerant towards immigrants – but tolerate religious rights less. Religious people by contrast are less tolerant towards immigrants – but more open towards their religious rights. This suggests that religion still shapes the way social issues are dealt with.
LT Video Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.21036/LTPUB10042
Opposing Muslims and the Muslim Headscarf in Western Europe
- Marc Helbling
- European Sociological Review
- Published in 2014
