French-Moroccans or Franco-Moroccans or simply (French: Franco-Marocains) are French citizens and nationals ethnic group, of the France with French citizenship and a French passport of Moroccans descent, immigrants from Morocco to the France and their descendants they are the second largest ethnic group in the France after Algerians in France. French people of Moroccan descent living in France account for a large sector of the total immigrant population in France. Following the French protectorate in French Morocco from 1912 to 1956, many Moroccans chose to immigrate to France from the 1960s to the present due to France's favorable economic conditions.
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 1,500,000 (Moroccan origin) and [1][2][3] (433,026) Moroccan-born people[4] | |
| Languages | |
| French (Maghrebi French), Arabic (Moroccan Arabic, Jebli Arabic, Judeo-Moroccan Arabic, Hassaniya Arabic), Berber (Tashlhit, Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight), Spanish | |
| Religion | |
| Majority Muslim Minorities Judaism, and Christianity (mostly Catholic and Protestant minorities),[5] other religions Irreligion.[5] | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Algerians in France Tunisians in France |
Demographics
editThe 2011 Census recorded 433,026 Moroccan-born people.[6]
| Year | Moroccan-born population | + descendance | Foreigners | Migrants | Other data |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 387,654[7] | 506,000[8] | |||
| 2005 | 846,901[9] | ||||
| 2006 | 859,026[9] | ||||
| 2007 | 870,871[9] | 452,000[8] | |||
| 2008 | 881,334[9] | 1,314,000[10][11] | 654.000[12] | ||
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| 2010 | |||||
| 2011 | 433,026[6] | 679,983[13][14][2] | |||
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Religion
editAccording to the national survey of 2020 holden by the INSEE, 65% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Islam; at the same time, 5% of the French of Moroccan origin adhered to Christianity, of whom 3% were Catholics and 2% other Christians (without further specification), and 4% to Judaism.[5] 25% of the French of Moroccan origin declared that they had no religion.[5] According to the same survey 89% of Moroccan-born people in France adhered to Islam.[5]
Notable people
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References
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- ^ a b Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011. Paris: INSEE. 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ^ Alaoui, Rachid (2013). "Peut-on parler de diaspora marocaine ?". Hommes & Migrations (1303): 7–15. doi:10.4000/hommesmigrations.2543. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023. Retrieved 16 December 2018.
- ^ "Résultats de la recherche | Insee". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d e Drouhot, Lucas; Simon, Patrick; Tiberj, Vincent (30 March 2023). "La diversité religieuse en France : transmissions intergénérationnelles et pratiques selon les origines" [Religious diversity in France: Intergenerational transmissions and practices according to the origins] (PDF) (in French). INSEE. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2023. Website (archive)
- ^ a b "Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011 INSEE". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ a b "Infos migrations n° 20 – février 2011" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ a b c d "Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Archived from the original on 19 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Selon des chiffres officiels : Plus de 1,3 millions de Marocains recencés en France en 2008". Archived from the original on 9 April 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Face à l'islam de France, du déni à la paralysie". 3 June 2014. Archived from the original on 7 August 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2008 INSEE". Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Répartition des immigrés par pays de naissance en 2011 INSEE". Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2014.
- ^ "Présentation du Maroc". Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2020.