Halleh Ghorashi is professor of managing diversity and integration at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She is the author and co-author of several books and has published many articles on topics such as identity and cultural diversity. Her most recent publication is ‘Muslim Diaspora in the West: Negotiating Gender, Home and Belonging’ (together with H. Moghissi, Ashgate 2010). Currently her research focuses on the narratives of identity and belonging of migrants, along with exclusion and inclusion in the context of growing culturalism.