Section outline

    • This class will explore the question of immigration and its links to the wider issues of French national identity and republicanism. We will examine the changes in migratory flux that occurred in the post-WWII period and the effects that these changes had on the question of immigration and, consequently, on the question of identity.  

    • Required reading:  

    • Jennings, Jeremy (2000), ‘Citizenship, republicanism and multiculturalism in contemporary France’, in British Journal of Political Science, 30, pp.575-598 File
      2.8 MB
    • Hargreaves, Alec (2007), ‘Overview’, in Multi-Ethnic France : Immigration, Politics, Culture and Society, New York & London: Routledge, pp.8-39 File
      210.8 KB

    • Further reading :  

        

      • Hayward, Jack (2007), Fragmented France: two centuries of disputed identity, Oxford : Oxford University Press  

      • Begag Azouz (2007), Ethnicity and Equality : France in the Balance, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press  

      • Raymond, Gino and Modood, Tariq, (eds.) (2007), The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 

      • Modood, Tariq, Anna Triandafyllidou and Ricard Zapata-Barrero (2006), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, London & New York: Routledge  

      • Guénif-Souilamas, Nacira, (ed.) (2006), La République Mise à Nu par son Immigration, Paris: Fabrique éditions   

      • Weil, Patrick (2005), La République et sa diversité: Immigration, intégration et discrimination, Paris: Seuil  

      • Silverstein, Paul (2004), Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race and Nation, Bloomington: Indiana Universtiy Press 

      • Weil, Patrick (2002), Qu’est-ce qu’un Français? Histoire de la Nationalité Française depuis la Révolution, Paris: Grasset   

      • Noiriel, Gérard (1996), The French Melting Pot : Immigration, Citizenship and National Identity, Minneapolis & London: Minnesota University Press 

      • Silverman, Maxim (1992), Deconstructing the Nation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in modern France, London : Routledge 

      • Thomas, Elaine (2011), Immigration, Islam and the Politics of Belonging in France: A comparative framework, University of Pennsylvania Press 


    • Week 2 lecture File
      6.1 MB