1st Edition

Immigration, 'Race' and Ethnicity in Contemporary France

By Alec Hargreaves Copyright 1995

    First published in 1995. Immigration is one of the most significant and pressing issues in contemporary France. It has stirred up controversies over concepts such as the ‘ghetto’ and the ‘underclass’; it has erupted in flashpoints such as the Islamic headscarf affair, the Gulf War and the reform of French nationality laws, and it has become central to political debate with the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s extreme right-wing Front National. This is the first comprehensive survey to be published in English covering developments in this field during the last twenty years. Spanning politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices, this authoritative study will be of keen interest to under graduates and researchers in French studies, migration studies and ethnic relations, and a wide range of social science disciplines.

    Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 Socio-economic structures; Chapter 3 Ethnic identification and mobilization; Chapter 4 National identity, nationality and citizenship; Chapter 5 Politics and public policy; conclusion;

    Biography

    Alec G. Hargreaves is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at Loughborough University. His previous books include Immigration in Post-War France (Routledge, 1987), Voices from the North African Immigrant Community in France (1991) and, jointly edited with Michael J. Heffernan, French and Algerian Identities from Colonial Times to the Present (1993).