Britain’s Muslim population age structure derives from labour-migrant migration patterns.

Evidence

The increase in the number of Muslims significantly influenced by their younger demographic profile compared with the national population as a whole: 33% of Muslims are aged 15 or under compared with 19% of the total population. This is a consequence of the age at which most people migrate from one country to another; as discussed above, the majority of Muslims who migrated to Britain entered the country as labourers – overwhelmingly they were young men, who later brought their wives and children to join them. Although the earliest migrants have now reached retirement age (4% of Muslims compared with 16% of the population as a whole), births among Muslims continue to outnumber deaths, and as a result the population has increased rather than declined (Simpson 2013). — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 210

Categorization

• XREF: The migration-mechanism causal story gives a demographic groundedness that a politician’s ‘Muslim invasion’ frame deliberately erases — useful counterpoint in the definitional debate. — connects to: British Muslims are now a larger, younger, and more organized community than in 1997. — A. Hussain, N. Meer, Framing Muslim Integration, 85; Muslim population growth stems mechanistically from migration age and birth rates — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia: Still a Challenge for Us…, 205; Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336 (+1 more)
• SHARE: The causal chain — labour migration of young men -> wives/children join -> youthful age pyramid -> population growth — is exactly the fact-pattern a specific colleague working on migration demography would cite.

Related

• Muslim population growth stems mechanistically from migration age and birth rates (similarity 0.94)
• British Muslims are now a larger, younger, and more organized community than in 1997. (similarity 0.88)
• Europe’s Muslim population is a decade younger than the non-Muslim median. (similarity 0.83)
• Migration drives roughly half of Europe’s projected Muslim population growth to 2050. (similarity 0.80)
• Muslim population growth in Britain matched expected demography yet the press framed it alarmingly. (similarity 0.80)
• British Muslims form one of Europe’s most ethnically and birth-origin-diverse populations. (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label (similarity 0.79)
• UK integration discourse framed Muslims as demographic threats to national existence (similarity 0.79)
• Muslim-majority populations grew nearly 50 percent between 1955 and 1970 (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Muslim population growth stems mechanistically from migration age and birth rates #corroborates (0.95) — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 205
• Postwar Europe’s Muslim population traced to French and British colonial ties #corroborates (0.80) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 336
• Muslim migrants were initially subsumed under the hegemonic ‘Asian’ label #expands (0.75) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 50