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In the last few years, muslim immigrants have greatly increased their numbers in Spain while at the same time attracting growing attention and becoming the focus of much of the debate surrounding the integration of the foreign population in thiscountry. In this article we try to show the main characteristics of muslim immigration, the building of associative networks and the organization of the muslim community in Spain, as well as the evolution of the relationship with the receiving society and the conflicts which have a risen surrounding their presence and integration into spanish society. The article also analyzes the ways in which muslim immigrants insert themselves on the local level as well as the cultural demands which have emerged in this process related to the practice of Islam in a non-muslim.

This article examines the periodisation and frame work of ideas within which post-WWII immigrants of Muslim back ground have been understood in Britain and France where in, through different routes, the category Muslim has come to occupy a prominent place. Three levels of analysis need to be borne in mind when considering these conceptual frame works:— The minorities themselves with regard to their structural incorporation within the majority society, and their own modes of social organisation.— The majority society’s categorisation of these minorities as it underpinsthe policies directed towards them, and the accompanying discourses.— Social science as it conceptualises them and their interaction with majority society.

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