Immigration, 'Race' and Ethnicity in Contemporary France

First published in 1995. Immigration is one of the most significant and pressing issues in contemporary France. It has stirred up controversies over concepts such as the ‘ghetto'and the ‘underclass'; it has erupted in flashpoints such as the Islamic headscarf affair, the Gulf War and the reform of French nationality laws, and it has become central to political debate with the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right-wing Front National. This is the first comprehensive survey to be published in English covering developments in this field during the last twenty years. Spanning politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices, this authoritative study will be of keen interest to under graduates and researchers in French studies, migration studies and ethnic relations, and a wide range of social science disciplines. Immigration is one of the most significant and pressing issues in contemporary France. It has stirred up controversies over concepts such as the `ghetto' and the `underclass': it has erupted in flashpoints such as the Islamic headscarf affair, the Gulf War and the reform of French nationality laws, and it has become central to the political debate with the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right-wing Front National. This is the first comprehensive survey to be published in English covering developments in this field during the last twenty years. Spanning politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices, this authoritative study will be of keen interest to undergraduates and researchers in French studies, migration studies and ethnic relations, and a wide range of social science disciplines.

Immigration is one of the most significant and persistant issues in contremporary France. It raises controversial concepts such as the ghetto and the underclass; it has erupted in flashpoints such as the Gulf War; and it has become central to the political debate with the rise of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right-wing party. Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary France is the first comprehensive survey to be published in English covering developments in this field during the last twenty years. Spanning politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices, this authoritative study will be of keen interest to those in French studies, migration studies and ethnic relations as well as to a wide range of social science disciplines.

First published in 2004. In the stormy years before Ireland at last gained her independence a brilliant revival of Irish drama took place and culminated in the foundation of the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Of those who helped to create it—W.B.Yeats, Lady Gregory, the Fay brothers, and Miss Horniman—it was J.M. Synge as much as anyone who made the new Irish drama the force it quickly became in the theatres of the world. In his plays, as in his rich, tumbling comedy, The Playboy of the Western World, or in the tragedy of classic simplicity, Riders to the Sea, he succeeds more than any other dramatist in miraculously distilling the Irish spirit Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 List of figures and tables......Page 10 Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Overview......Page 22 Socio-economic structures......Page 59 Ethnic identification and mobilization......Page 106 National identity, nationality and citizenship......Page 170 Politics and public policy......Page 198 Conclusion......Page 231 Chronology of events......Page 237 Resource and documentation centres......Page 245 Keeping up to date......Page 248 Notes......Page 251 Bibliography......Page 257 Index......Page 277 First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.