Politics of Alterity - France and Her Others

Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in antidiscrimination and naturalisation offices in the Paris region, this book shows how immigration, nation, and racialisation are articulated in the social space and questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Raising the Issue of Racial Discrimination: How Recognition Remained Incomplete
2 Discrimination Politics: The State, Limited, and Ambivalent
3 Put to the Test by the Nation: Administrative Practices and Experiences of Naturalization
4 French, and Yet Other: Naturalization Ceremonies, or the Paradox of the Category 'Naturalized'
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Permanent researcher, French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Rachel Gomme is a translator and has previously brought the work of Didier Fassin to an English-speaking audience.

Product details

• Authors: Sarah Mazouz, Sarah Mazouz
• Assisted by: Rachel Gomme (Translation), Rachel Gomme (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1999
• EAN: 9781538145913
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-4591-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Challenging Migration Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, alterity; bureacracy; citizenship; identity; migration; race