Moroccans in France
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| Total population | ||||||||||
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| 1,314,000 (2008)[1] | ||||||||||
| Languages | ||||||||||
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French (Maghrebi French), Arabic (Moroccan Arabic), Berber (Tashlhit, Tarifit, Central Atlas Tamazight) | ||||||||||
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Majority Sunni Islam, minority Judaism and Roman Catholicism | ||||||||||
| Related ethnic groups | ||||||||||
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Tunisians in France Algerians in France | ||||||||||
Moroccans in France are people of Moroccan descent living in France. Also, sometimes includes French people born within the territory of Morocco who were French settlers and are known as Pied-Noir. People of Moroccan origin account for a large sector of the total population in France. Following France's colonial rule in 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.
Demographics
The 2011 Census recorded 433,026 Moroccan-born people.[2]
| Year | Moroccan-born population | + descendance | Foreigners | Migrants | Other data |
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| 1999 | 387,654[3] | 506,000[4] | |||
| 2005 | 846,901[5] | ||||
| 2006 | 859,026[5] | ||||
| 2007 | 870,871[5] | 452,000[4] | |||
| 2008 | 881,334[5] | 1,314,000[6][7] | 654.000[8] | ||
| 2009 | |||||
| 2010 | |||||
| 2011 | 433,026[2] | 679,983[9] | |||
| 2012 | |||||
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See also
- Morocco–France relations
- Immigration to France
- Arabs in France
- Berbers in France
References
- ↑ Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011. Paris: INSEE. 2011. Retrieved 4 August 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2011 INSEE.
- ↑ "Country-of-birth database". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Infos migrations n° 20 - février 2011.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 "Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth". Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Retrieved 2014-08-07.
- ↑ http://www.aufaitmaroc.com/maroc/societe/2012/10/11/plus-de-13-millions-de-marocains-recences-en-france-en-2008_194970.html
- ↑ http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/face-a-l-islam-de-france-du-deni-a-la-paralysie_1548482.html
- ↑ Répartition des étrangers par nationalité en 2008 INSEE.
- ↑ Répartition des immigrés par pays de naissance en 2011 INSEE.
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