While the arrival of large numbers of migrants from Syria has transformed the German Muslim scene in recent years, we still know very little about “how” and “to what degree.” Equally lacking is information on how existing Muslim-majority communities have experienced this transformation and what kind of relations they have established (if at all) with the “newcomers.” In search for answers to these questions, this article focuses on intercommunity and intracommunity dynamics among Muslim immigrants from Turkey and Syria in Germany. Through 20 in-depth, semistructured interviews, and participant observation in a mosque in Lower Saxony, it looks at how different identity markers influence the construction of symbolic boundaries in these communities. By doing so, it moves beyond the simplifying dichotomy of “Muslim immigrants versus non-Muslim hosts” and highlights other markers of difference, which differentiate incoming populations not only from receiving populations but also from each other.

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信仰和归属的政治：德国穆斯林移民日益多元化

尽管近年来大量叙利亚移民的到来改变了德国穆斯林的面貌，但我们仍然对“如何”和“程度”知之甚少。同样缺乏关于现有穆斯林占多数的社区如何经历这种转变以及他们与“新来者”建立了什么样的关系（如果有的话）的信息。为了寻找这些问题的答案，本文重点关注来自土耳其和叙利亚的德国穆斯林移民的社区间和社区内动态。通过 20 次深入的半结构化访谈以及在下萨克森州一座清真寺的参与观察，它探讨了不同的身份标记如何影响这些社区中象征边界的构建。通过这样做，它超越了“穆斯林移民与非穆斯林东道主”的简化二分法，并强调了其他差异标记，这些标记不仅将传入人口与接收人口区分开来，而且将彼此之间区分开来。