The French melting pot : immigration, citizenship, and national identity
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The French melting pot : immigration, citizenship, and national identity
（Contradictions of modernity, v. 5）
University of Minnesota Press, c1996
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Creuset français
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
France is now a nation of immigrants. During the past thirty years, a large influx of immigrants from southern Europe and Africa has transformed French society to the point that one-third of the people currently living there have foreign-born parents or grandparents. An incisive comparison with the United States and other countries, this study looks at the issues behind France's denial of its immigrant past. Since the mid-1980s, immigration has surged to the forefront of public consciousness, leading to a growth of the nativist far right. Through a thematic exploration of the immigrant experience in France, Gerard Noiriel interweaves a discussion of past events with current issues. Among the topics discussed are why French historians and descendants of immigrants have traditionally sidestepped the immigration question; the importance and diversity of various waves of migration to France; the roles played by immigrants in the economic, social, and cultural development of the country; and the causes of periodic outbursts of xenophobia. Employing paradigms from history, sociology, and legal studies, the book also illuminates the cultural meaning of the American "melting pot".
Table of Contents
- The denial of memory
- the card and the code
- uprooted
- battered roots
- three crises
- the reconstruction of France
- conclusion - toward a sociohistory of national assimilation.
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