Perspective Of Sociology Of The French Muslim Immigrants

As one of the most active elements in the process of globalization, cross–border population migration is now having greater and greater impacts on the world which we live in and it also being entangled with the changes of international political situation. In Europe, France is an important country to immigrants who has a considerable Muslim population. However, with the French economic recession, Muslim problem has become a prominent issue which plagued French society. Immigrant problems are of multi-facet factors, but as the tension of Islam-Western relation is growing and the epidemic of the"clash of civilizations"theory, the French Muslim problem is often been explained only by cultural factors. However, this argument do have little aid in improving the relation between Muslim community and the mainstream society, and it also do have little aid in reducing the tension of international society.By using Western sociological theories of social exclusion and cultural identity which study ethnic relations, this article tries to find out the reasons behind French Muslim problems from internal and external causes. Then this article will show that the external causes of French Muslim problems is the state that Muslims are being excluded in political, economical, social and cultural life by French mainstream society which is due to complex historical, economic, political and cultural factors; while the internal reason is French ingredient in the cultural identity of Muslim youth which make them different from their parents. And it is precisely the pursuit of freedom and equality by those Muslim youths with French identity make them can not keep quiet before exclusion, thus cause Muslim problems in France today.