French Color Blindness in Perspective: The Controversy over &amp;quot;Statistiques Ethniques&amp;quot;

Sabbagh, Daniel; Peer, Shanny

doi:10.3167/fpcs.2008.260101

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“…This practice has been explicitly illegal in France since 14 December 2013: residential discrimination is the 20th criterion for assessing whether discrimination against individuals has taken place. 2 France is an interesting case to study discrimination because the country ostensibly promotes a colorblind ideal of race relations (Sabbagh and Peer, 2008;Safi, 2008;Simon, 2008). For instance, the French Republican model forcefully rejects ethnicity, culture, and religion as a basis for political organization, claims-making, and even as the basis of categories for official statistics.…”

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Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

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General rightsThis document is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Full terms of use are available: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/pure/about/ebr-terms AbstractThis article investigates discrimination and the interplay of residential and ethnic stigma on the French housing market using two different methods, paired-testing audit study of real estate agencies and face-to-face interviews with real estate agents. The juxtaposition of their findings leads to a paradox: interviews reveal high levels of ethnic discrimination but little to none residential discrimination, while the audit study shows that living in deprived suburbs is associated with a lower probability of obtaining an appointment for a housing vacancy but ethnic origin (signaled by the candidate's name) has no significant discriminatory effect. We have three priors potentially consistent with this apparent paradox and re-evaluate their likelihood in light of these findings: (i) agents make use of any statistical information about insolvency, including residency; (ii) there are two distinct and independent taste discriminations, one about space and one about ethnicity; (iii) these two dimensions exist and complement each other.

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“…Still, expertise contradicting the colour blind French approach was ignored or prevented, ''race based statistics'' were banned almost completely, because of the taboo on categorizing minorities in a way that interfered with their citizenship status (Bleich 2003). Also among researchers, the use of race or ethnicity based statistics was controversial (Amiraux andSimon 2006, Sabbagh andPeer 2008). The engineering of French republicanism thus involved a specific use of research.…”

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Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda: Expertise and Politics in the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom

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Timmermans

2010

Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice

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Policy making and agenda setting often are analyzed either in terms of how policy problems are defined, or in terms of the structural setting producing stability or opportunities for change. Building on different fields of scholarly work, this paper aims at an integration of structural and substantive elements in studying agenda setting. We analyze how particular frames of immigrant issues emerge in the interaction between policy makers and experts within this immigrant policy domain. By comparing this key element of agenda setting in the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom, we show how different types of interaction produce different substantive policy frames. If immigrant integration is shaped primarily as a policy issue in broader political arenas and the media, a different frame emerges than when venues such as advisory bodies, think tanks and bureaucracies with limited access and less public exposure are involved.

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“…Bourdieu, for example, focused more on concrete issues in the banlieues, such as poverty, relative deprivation, criminality and anomie (Amiraux & Simon 2006). Moreover, after the turn of the millennium, researchers would return to the dispute on statistiques ethniques (Sabbagh & Peer 2008). It was claimed that the government would be unable to effectively implement EU directives on anti-discrimination if it was unable to keep track of direct and indirect discrimination of specific groups (Simon 2005).…”

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Framing Immigrant Integration : Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective

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French Color Blindness in Perspective: The Controversy over "Statistiques Ethniques"

Cited by 62 publications

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Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

Better residential than ethnic discrimination! Reconciling audit and interview findings in the Parisian housing market

Setting the Immigrant Policy Agenda: Expertise and Politics in the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom

Framing Immigrant Integration : Dutch Research-Policy Dialogues in Comparative Perspective

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