Nasar Meer is Professor in Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy and the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship at the University of Bristol. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. Ricard Zapata-Barrero is Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona, Spain). He is co-editor of The Politics of Immigration in Multi-Level States: Governance and Political Parties (with Eve Hepburn, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) and of Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach (with Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood, Routledge, 2006).Ricard Zapata Barrero is Full Professor in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF-Barcelona).