Assimilation – a worn theory? Muslims in Warsaw

Abstract

The subject of the article is an analysis of the process of assimilation of
the Muslim community in Poland on the example of the capital city of Warsaw.
The research problem was to determine the degree of assimilation of the
Muslim community with the residents of Warsaw and an attempt to find out
if assimilation is the right term to describe the current interaction that takes

place between the Muslim community and heterodox inhabitants of Warsaw.
Such an approach required, firstly, the definition of ‘assimilation’ which in
the twenty-first century is still an equivocal term causing much controversy,
secondly, the specification of barriers and difficulties and showing the cause
and effect relationships hindering the process of assimilation.