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E-book Citizen Outsider : Children of North African Immigrants in France

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n doing so, I lay to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding distinc-tions based on race and ethnicity. I examine how a population that is legally and technically French is not considered culturally French, and is therefore excluded from popular imaginations of who a French person is. This reveals how race, eth-nicity, and culture intersect in determining who is a citizen of the nation-state and who can claim a French identity.The continually reinforced rejection by mainstream society experienced by Abdelkrim and others belies previous conclusions about the salience of race and ethnicity as markers of difference in France. By traditional measures, many chil-dren of North African immigrants, or the North African second generation, as I also refer to them, are assimilated (Portes and Zhou 1993).7 The individuals I discuss in this book were educated at French schools and universities. Their native tongue is French. They are French citizens. While their middle-class sta-tus might suggest a triumph of France’s Republican model, which purports to downplay distinctions based on identity among citizens, this population’s con-tinued experiences of exclusion and discrimination challenge this straightfor-ward conclusion.I frame these individuals as “citizen outsiders”—a framework rooted in early works by black scholars such as Audre Lorde (2007), W. E. B. DuBois ([1903] 1994) and Frantz Fanon (1967) and recently coined by political scientist Cathy Cohen (2010)—in that they are simultaneously members of a society yet kept on the margins of that society. I further use the framework of “cultural citizenship”as a corrective to theories of immigrant incorporation and assimilation, as well as to illustrate how difference is implicitly marked among individuals without explicit designations by the state. Individuals who are technically citizens are not treated as full citizens because of their assigned otherness as racial and ethnic minori-ties. Members of this French-born population find that they cannot escape this assigned otherness. Because of their North African origins, they have been denied cultural citizenship, which signifies a claim to societal belonging that is accepted by others, enabling children of North African immigrants to traverse the cultural-symbolic boundaries of French identity and be considered truly French.These individuals’ marginalization reveals both how race and ethnicity remain significant in shaping life circumstances in French society and how citizen-ship status is not a sufficient boundary defining insiders and outsiders. Rather, acceptance as a fellow citizen is inextricably linked to boundaries around French identity marked by race and ethnicity.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

305.244 BEA c

Penerbit

USA : University of California Press., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

170 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9780520294264

Klasifikasi

305.244

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Groups in France

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