Amika Wardana
The integration of Muslim immigrants in Western countries especially Britain has attracted wider attention both from academia, policymakers and public in general. Their different religion (i.e. Islam) has been regarded as the crucial factors in the process contextualised by the socio-political circumstances of the host society and the existence transnational link to the home country encouraging them to reproduce and transplant their ethno-religious tradition in diaspora. The article addresses the interplay between, on the one hand, the strong and weakness of the politics of multiculturalism and the secularisation and desecularisation of British society, and on the other, the institutionalisation of Islam in Britain amidst the persistent internal divisions and fragmentations of minority Muslim immigrant communities. As the result, Muslim immigrants have set up an ethno-religious integration trajectory through their own established socio-religious institutions and associations in parallel with the host country social and political ones. © 2012, Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies.; Integrasi imigran Muslim di negara-negara Barat khususnya Inggris telah memeroleh perhatian luas baik dari kalangan akademisi, pembuat kebijakan dan publik pada umumnya. Keragaman agama mereka (termasuk Islam) dipandang sebagai faktor penting dalam proses yang dikontekstualisasi oleh lingkungan sosiopolitik masyarakat setempat dan hubungan transnasional yang ada dengan negara asal yang mendorong mereka mereproduksi dan mentransplantasi tradisi etnoreligi mereka di diaspora. Artikel ini memaparkan hubungan saling pengaruh antara kekuatan dan kelemahan politik multikulturalisme di satu sisi, dan institusionalisasi Islam di Inggris yang melahirkan pembagian dan fragmentasi internal di kalangan komunitas imigran Muslim minoritas di sisi lain. Akibatnya, imigran Muslim telah membangun peta integrasi etno-religi melalui lembagalembaga dan asosiasi-asosiasi sosio-religi mereka yang sudah mapan paralel dengan lembaga dan asosiasi social dan politik negara setempat. © 2012, Indonesian Journal of Islam and Muslim Societies.
Faculty of Social Science, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia; University of Essex, England, United Kingdom
