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.
[6] According 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] According to the same survey 89% of Moroccan-born people in France adhered to Islam.