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MUZUŁMANIE WE FRANCJI - WYBRANE ASPEKTY SPOŁECZNO-POLITYCZNE
MUSLIM IN FRANCE- SOME SOCIO-POLITICAL ASPECTS

Author(s): Stanisław Musiał
Subject(s): Politics, Islam studies, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Sociology of Religion, Geopolitics
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Geopolityczne
Keywords: muslim; France; islam;

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this publication is to present selected socio-political issues related to the presence of Muslims in France and the specifics of the community of French ethnic background (European). To achieve this, the author analyzes the areas of settlement and housing French Muslims, the associated social pathologies, then presents the demographic structure and employment structure of the Muslim population, the problem of citizenship, electoral preferences and political activity, as well as against the minority Islamic natives. The final piece of the publication refers to the integration and assimilation policies pursued – often inconsistently – by the authorities against French Muslims, and in this context, the pursuit of that power to the Confidentiality of the constitutional principle of secularism of the French State.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 08
  • Page Range: 31-48
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Polish