ARTICLE RETIRÉ : RESF : une forme originale de critique de la xénophobie

Contemporary Grammars of Resistance: Two French Social Movements

“…Activists in the network are self-described ‘ordinary people’ 10 who have not necessarily been politically active in the past: ‘citizens of diverse opinions and convictions (teachers, parents, supporters) and trade union and other associations’ (RESF, 2012). 11 Actions include blocking entrances to schools with prams when the police come for undocumented students and parents, flooding courtrooms when families have deportation hearings to bear witness to the ‘justice’ that is being served, providing support to families throughout their attempts at regularization, and passing petitions to airline passengers and pilots when deportees will be on flights (Fischmann and Fournier, 2010).…”

“…However, in response, RESF militant-intellectuals conceive of their action in alternative modes: The question has been debated several times during national RESF meetings, as well as local meetings: demanding the regularization of families and young people in school is a stage, a way to engage parents, teachers and local residents in a solidarity of proximity which can be extended, once people realize that other people subjected to legal segregation are in the same situation … to address, in concentric circles, a broader vision and to draw categories from this. (Fischmann and Fournier, 2010: 157)…”