Institutionalising diasporic Islam: multiculturalism, secularism and the integration of Muslim immigrants in Britain
The integration of Muslim immigrants in Western countries especially Britain has<br />attracted wider attention both from academia, policymakers and public in gen-<br />eral. Their different religion (i.e. Islam) has been regarded as the crucial factors<br />in the process contextualised by the socio-political circumstances of the host<br />society and the existence transnational link to the home country encouraging<br />them to reproduce and transplant their ethno-religious tradition in diaspora. The<br />article addresses the interplay between, on the one hand, the strong and weak-<br />ness of the politics of multiculturalism and the secularisation and desecularisation<br />of British society, and on the other, the institutionalisation of Islam in Britain amidst<br />the persistent internal divisions and fragmentations of minority Muslim immi-<br />grant communities. As the result, Muslim immigrants have set up an ethno-reli-<br />gious integration trajectory through their own established socio-religious institu-<br />tions and associations in parallel with the host country social and political ones.<br />Integrasi imigran Muslim di negara-negara Barat khususnya Inggris telah<br />memeroleh perhatian luas baik dari kalangan akademisi, pembuat kebijakan dan publik pada umumnya. Keragaman agama mereka (termasuk Islam) dipandang<br />sebagai faktor penting dalam proses yang dikontekstualisasi oleh lingkungan sosio-politik masyarakat setempat dan hubungan transnasional yang ada dengan negara<br />asal yang mendorong mereka mereproduksi dan mentransplantasi tradisi etno-religi mereka di diaspora. Artikel ini memaparkan hubungan saling pengaruh<br />antara kekuatan dan kelemahan politik multikulturalisme di satu sisi, dan<br />institusionalisasi Islam di Inggris yang melahirkan pembagian dan fragmentasi<br />internal di kalangan komunitas imigran Muslim minoritas di sisi lain. Akibatnya,<br />imigran Muslim telah membangun peta integrasi etno-religi melalui lembaga-lembaga dan asosiasi-asosiasi sosio-religi mereka yang sudah mapan paralel<br />dengan lembaga dan asosiasi social dan politik negara setempat.