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Author: Gerard Boucher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317330684
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 145

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Social cohesion has had different meanings for people depending on their background, their interests, where they live in the world, and at what time they lived. In the social sciences, social cohesion is a term used to explain the social and cultural consequences of structural changes related to industrialization and modernity. In the European Union, structural changes which relate to globalization, European integration, the restructuring of welfare states, ageing societies, and transitions from communism, have often led to more insecurity and material inequalities between people. Higher rates of immigration, and issues related to the integration of migrants and their descendants, have also led to anxieties about the preservation of national cultures and identities. This book argues that perceived crises in social cohesion in Europe have more to do with the consequences of structural change rather than the failure of multiculturalism and immigration. It looks at the relationship between social cohesion and social change in Europe, focusing on the European Union as a whole, and on urban areas such as Paris, France and Bradford, UK. This book was originally published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

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Publisher: Odile Jacob
ISBN: 2738195415
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162

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Author: Maxim Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134949456
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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Maxim Silverman analyzes the connection between racism and the development of the nation-state in modern France. He raises important questions about the nature of French society and contributes to the European debate on citizenship.

Author: Cris Beauchemin
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319766384
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 391

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This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France. The data, collected from more than 20, 000 persons representative of the population living in France, offer invaluable insights into the trajectories and experience of ethnic minorities. The book explains how France has been an immigrant-receiving country for over a century and how it is now a multicultural society with an unprecedented level of origin diversity. While immigrants and their descendants are targets of clichés and stereotyping, this book provides unique quantitative findings on their situation in all areas of personal and working life. Is origin in itself a factor of inequality? With its detailed reconstitutions of educational, occupational and conjugal trajectories and its exploration of access to housing and health, this book provides multiple approaches to answering this question. One of the work’s major contributions is to combine objective and subjective measures of discrimination: this is the first study in France to focus on racism as experienced by those subjected to it, while opening up new methodological perspectives on the experience of prejudice by origin, religion, and skin colour.

Author: Rabah Aissaoui
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857713469
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Immigration is at the heart of social, cultural and political debate in France, a country still struggling to come to terms with its postcolonial legacy. Here Assaoui provides a radical re-examination of the assumptions about immigrants and ethnic and national identity through a study of the Maghrebis, especially their political mobilisation from the colonial to the postcolonial period. Combining insights from the archive and interviews with political activists, he examines the diaspora's voice and their struggle against racism and oppression.Through a study of key political movements, he shows how they constructed a powerful and consistent political tradition and charts the development, in France, of the Algerian anti-colonial and nationalist movement, as well as new forms of political activism during the 1970s. "Immigration and National Identity" foregrounds the migrants' perspective and the necessary historical background to the fraught contemporary context of immigrant communities in France. It will be valuable for all those concerned with immigration, colonialism and postcolonialism, cultural studies, sociology and the study of contemporary France.

Author: Comité européen des Droits sociaux
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287155405
Category :
Languages : fr
Pages : 330

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Author: European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia
Publisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 120

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Recoge : 1.International and European Organisations -- 2.Belgium -- 3.Denmark -- 4.Germany -- 5.Greece -- 6.Spain -- 7.France -- 8.Ireland -- 9.Italy -- 10.Luxembourg -- 11.The Netherlands -- 12.Austria -- 13.Portugal -- 14.Finland -- 15.Sweden -- 16.United Kingdom -- 17.EUMC database.

Author: Abdellali Hajjat
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253059852
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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In 1983—as France struggled with race-based crimes, police brutality, and public unrest—youths from Vénissieux (working-class suburbs of Lyon) led the March for Equality and Against Racism, the first national demonstration of its type in France. As Abdellali Hajjat reveals, the historic March for Equality and Against Racism symbolized for many the experience of the children of postcolonial immigrants. Inspired by the May '68 protests, these young immigrants stood against racist crimes, for equality before the law and the police, and for basic rights such as the right to work and housing. Hajjat also considers the divisions that arose from the march and offers fresh insight into the paradoxes and intricacies of movements pushing toward sweeping social change. Translated into English for the first time, The Wretched of France contemplates the protest's lasting significance in France as well as its impact within the context of larger and comparable movements for civil rights, particularly in the US.

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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 988

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Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.

Author: Miriam Feldblum
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791442692
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Provides the most comprehensive analysis of the rise of citizenship conflict in contemporary France.