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This article aims to clarify the roles and functions of the migrant religious association in the process of community creation, by using the case of the Muslim Pakistani migrants in Japan.The results can be summarized as follows.Firstly, the Pakistani migrants needed their own religious association for stabilizing their life in Japan.The establishment of the mosques is a part of the migration process and involves the support of Japanese wives. Secondly, the religious association of Pakistani migrants in Japan has not only religious but also educational, social, and economic functions.But, they lack a political function, because of the constrained position of the Muslims in Japan after September llth.Lastly, the migrant religious association has two different effects on its constituent community.One is stabilizing their life in the host society and the other is transnational networking.This transnational networking effect adds another variation to the migration process model.
