Paul Statham is Professor of Political Sociology and Director of EurPolCom, the International Research Network on European Political Communications, hosted by the Department of Sociology at the University of Bristol. He was formerly a Professor at the University of Leeds and a researcher at the Wissenschaftszentrum fur Sozialforschung, Berlin. His research focuses on European integration and the public sphere and on multiculturalism, Islam, and migrants' political mobilization in Europe, within a cross-national comparative framework. He has published more than 20 articles in international scho...