The French melting pot :
Noiriel, Gérard
The French melting pot : immigration, citizenship, and national identity / Gérard Noiriel ; translated by Geoffroy de Laforcade ; foreword by Charles Tilly. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996. - xxix, 325 pages ; 24 cm. - Contradictions of modernity ; v. 5.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.
The Denial of Memory -- The Card and the Code -- Uprooted -- Battered Roots -- Three Crises -- The Reconstruction of France -- Conclusion. Toward a Sociohistory of National Assimilation.
"Like the United States, France is a nation of immigrants. During the past thirty years, a large influx of immigrants from southern Europe and Africa has transformed French society to the point that one-third of the people currently living there have foreign-born parents or grandparents. An incisive comparison with the United States and other countries, The French Melting Pot looks at the issues behind France's denial of its immigrant past.
Since the mid-1980s, immigration has surged to the forefront of public consciousness, leading in France, as in the United States, to a growth of the nativist far right. Through a thematic exploration of the immigrant experience in France, Gerard Noiriel interweaves a discussion of past events with current issues. Among the topics discussed are why French historians and descendants of immigrants have traditionally sidestepped the immigration question; the importance and diversity of various waves of migration to France; the roles played by immigrants in the economic, social and cultural development of the country; and the causes of periodic outbursts of xenophobia. Noiriel also analyzes patterns of settlement, comparing the processes through which generations assimilate in France and the United States."-- Publisher's description.
0816624194 0816624208 paperback
France--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century
France--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
France--Emigration and immigration--History.
325.4409
The French melting pot : immigration, citizenship, and national identity / Gérard Noiriel ; translated by Geoffroy de Laforcade ; foreword by Charles Tilly. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1996. - xxix, 325 pages ; 24 cm. - Contradictions of modernity ; v. 5.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.
The Denial of Memory -- The Card and the Code -- Uprooted -- Battered Roots -- Three Crises -- The Reconstruction of France -- Conclusion. Toward a Sociohistory of National Assimilation.
"Like the United States, France is a nation of immigrants. During the past thirty years, a large influx of immigrants from southern Europe and Africa has transformed French society to the point that one-third of the people currently living there have foreign-born parents or grandparents. An incisive comparison with the United States and other countries, The French Melting Pot looks at the issues behind France's denial of its immigrant past.
Since the mid-1980s, immigration has surged to the forefront of public consciousness, leading in France, as in the United States, to a growth of the nativist far right. Through a thematic exploration of the immigrant experience in France, Gerard Noiriel interweaves a discussion of past events with current issues. Among the topics discussed are why French historians and descendants of immigrants have traditionally sidestepped the immigration question; the importance and diversity of various waves of migration to France; the roles played by immigrants in the economic, social and cultural development of the country; and the causes of periodic outbursts of xenophobia. Noiriel also analyzes patterns of settlement, comparing the processes through which generations assimilate in France and the United States."-- Publisher's description.
0816624194 0816624208 paperback
France--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century
France--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century
France--Emigration and immigration--History.
325.4409