Towards the unmaking of the French mainstream: the empirical turn in immigrant assimilation and the making of Frenchness

Bertaux, Sandrine

doi:10.1080/1369183x.2015.1119651

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“…As long as French culture and customs were adopted, the original inhabitants of these colonies were considered French citizens. However, this model has become the centre of criticism (Bertaux, 2016). On the contrary, the path the EU wants to take is the model of multiculturalism In this regard, EU policymakers have set themselves a goal to raise the educational level of the incoming population and thus prepare it for better integration into society.…”

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Current Trends of the European Union Integration Policy As a Reaction to the Refugee and Migrant Crisis 2015

Kiner¹

2021

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Investing any resources and energy in integration policies today could contribute to making the European Union a more prosperous, cohesive, and inclusive place for society. However, notwithstanding the efforts made, third-country nationals continue to fare worse than domestic citizens in terms of employment, education, and social inclusion outcomes. The article examines and subsequently reviews various trends in integrating foreigners (primarily third-countries nationals and asylum seekers) on social and economic level after the outbreak of migrant and refugee crisis in 2015 until the present day. Our research suggests that the concerned group of immigrants continue to face barriers in the education system, on the labour market, and in accessing decent housing and adequate health care. All of the aforementioned aspects have become the main focus of all parties involved. Through funding, initiatives, and specific measures undertaken by both the EU and Member States with NGOs strengthen and support integration across key policy areas, albeit deficiencies are still observed.

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Current Trends of the European Union Integration Policy As a Reaction to the Refugee and Migrant Crisis 2015

Kiner¹

2021

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“… 1. ‘The new challenges of diversity’ are very often traced to immigration; however, making such a direct connection not only ignores a political sphere which articulates immigration in terms of a new challenge of diversity, but also sidesteps particular details such as the making of the demographic category ‘immigrant’ (Bertaux, 2011; 2016). For the links between the secularism–diversity debate and the liberalism–multiculturalism debate see Akan (2003). …”

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Diversité: Challenging or constituting laïcité?

Akan

2017

French Cultural Studies

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The debates on laïcité in France have been capped by a claim that French cultural imaginary laïcité has reasserted itself against the ‘new challenge of diversity’, this new challenge explicitly being contrasted to the old challenge of the Catholic Church. There have been plenty of references to the French Third Republic during these debates, yet these references fail to recognise that in fact the concept of diversité was part of the discussions on laïcité during the Third Republic. This is a historical fact that questions the distinction between old and new challenges. This article locates the concept of diversité in the parliamentary deliberations during the making of the ‘Loi du 28 Mars 1882 sur l’enseignement primaire obligatoire’ and the ‘Loi du 9 Décembre 1905 concernant la séparation des églises et de l’État’ and then compares the relations of diversité and laïcité at that time with their relations in contemporary France. The article lays out the move of diversité from a constitutive premise of laïc institutions in the Third Republic to challenging laïcité, and it explores the politics behind this move. I argue that laïcité has not been reasserted but rather has regressed in France.

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The unmaking and remaking of an ethnic boundary. Working-class Castilian speakers in Catalonia and the paradoxes of the independence movement

Aramburu

2018

Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies

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Towards the unmaking of the French mainstream: the empirical turn in immigrant assimilation and the making of Frenchness

Cited by 6 publications

References 17 publications

Current Trends of the European Union Integration Policy As a Reaction to the Refugee and Migrant Crisis 2015

Current Trends of the European Union Integration Policy As a Reaction to the Refugee and Migrant Crisis 2015

Diversité: Challenging or constituting laïcité?

The unmaking and remaking of an ethnic boundary. Working-class Castilian speakers in Catalonia and the paradoxes of the independence movement

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