French legislation against racism and discrimination

Costa-Lascoux, Jacqueline

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“…105 Woodall 1993: 23-24. A similar observation has been made by Costa-Lascoux 1994: 376. 106 Woodall 1993 It is possible that the lack of emphasis on race in French criminal law contributed to the reluctance of French public prosecutors to consider a racist motive as an aggravating factor in cases of premeditated murder.…”

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Race, ethnicity, discrimination and violence in "colour-blind" France

Naidoo

2019

Fundamina (Pretoria)

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The Universalist ideals of the French Revolution, which proclaimed that all men are born equal, inspired a principle that crystallised during the nineteenth-century Republican period. This principle asserts that racial and ethnic differences have to be minimised. Race and ethnicity are, therefore, theoretically not recognised in France. The only recognised distinction in France is between a French citizen and a foreigner. As a result of this principle, a vestige of the late nineteenth century, any laws, government policies, data and research that are based on race or ethnicity, are prohibited in France. There is consequently a paucity of comparative research and data on racial and ethnic groups in France. Adherence to this principle has also stymied honest debates about racism and racial discrimination in France. Since the twentieth century, however, there has been a tendency to depart from this principle, as evidenced by several government policies and practices that tacitly recognise race and ethnicity. A departure from the principle is also evident in several laws that make explicit reference to race and ethnicity. Such laws include anti-discrimination laws, laws that prohibit incitement to racial violence and laws that are akin to hatecrime laws in the Anglo-Saxon world. This contribution examines some of these laws and government policies, as well as the historical circumstances that led to their enactment and implementation. It focuses on migration to France from the

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“…Consequently, policies that specifically protect ethnic-minority groups and provide for racial quotas, such as the policy of affirmative action, are rejected in France. See, further, Möschel 2011Möschel : 1656and Costa-Lascoux 1994: 372. 14 Which is translatable into English as "There are only citizens".…”

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Race, ethnicity, discrimination and violence in "colour-blind" France

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2019

Fundamina (Pretoria)

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“…106 The other is through the Labor Inspectors of the Ministry of Labor, who are responsible for regulating all matters concerning the workplace. 105 One is the local police commissioner, actually an official of the national government.…”

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“…The ability of organizations to bring complaints on behalf of individuals certainly helps matters, but not surprisingly, convictions are extremely rare. 106 The other is through the Labor Inspectors of the Ministry of Labor, who are responsible for regulating all matters concerning the workplace. But although they have ample coercive power at their disposal, Labor Inspectors are generally more likely to use conciliation than coercion.…”

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Weak State, Strong Policy: Paradoxes of Race Policy in the United States, Great Britain, and France

Lieberman

2002

Stud. in Am. Pol. Dev.

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Race, in particular the peculiarly American embrace of political race-consciousness, is often portrayed as an important source of limitations on American political development. Although the color line has undergirded some of the most notorious instances of state repression in American history—the pre-civil rights South most notably, but also race-based immigration and citizenship restrictions and the FBI's COINTELPRO operations of the cold war era, to name a few—race is most commonly associated with state weakness through its effects on such processes as regional differentiation, class formation, and welfare state building.V. O. Key Jr., Southern Politics in State and Nation (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949); Richard Franklin Bensel, Yankee Leviathan: The Origins of Central State Authority in America, 1859–1877 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990); Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997); Desmond King, Making Americans: Immigration, Race, and the Origins of the Diverse Democracy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000); David J. Garrow, The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.: From “Solo” to Memphis (New York: W.W. Norton, 1981); Richard Franklin Bensel, Sectionalism and American Political Development: 1880–1980 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1984); Ira Katznelson, City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United States (New York: Pantheon, 1981); Robert C. Lieberman, Shifting the Color Line: Race and the American Welfare State (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998). These accounts fit nicely into conventional approaches to American political development, which similarly emphasize the peculiar weakness and fragmentation of the American state.Stephen Skowronek, Building a New American State: The Expansion of National Administrative Capacities, 1877–1920 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982); Peter Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer, and Theda Skocpol, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985); James A. Morone, The Democratic Wish: Popular Participation and the Limits of American Government (New York: Basic Books, 1990).

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Racismo, multietnicidad y democracia en América Latina

Guerrero¹

2001

Visiones De Fin De Siglo

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French legislation against racism and discrimination

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Race, ethnicity, discrimination and violence in "colour-blind" France

Race, ethnicity, discrimination and violence in "colour-blind" France

Weak State, Strong Policy: Paradoxes of Race Policy in the United States, Great Britain, and France

Racismo, multietnicidad y democracia en América Latina

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