Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France

The Representation of Immigrants

Bibliographic Data

ID23398781
AuthorsR D Grillo, Ralph Grillo (University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year1985
Publication date1985-06-30
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueIdeologies and Institutions in Urban France (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511521089
OpenAlexW4236600409
Open LibraryOL34441561M
ISBN9780511521089
LanguageEN
Citations received56

In this book, based on intensive fieldwork in a major French provincial city (Lyon), Grillo shows how an anthropological perspective enhances our understanding of institutional processes and ideological forces in industrial society, presenting a detailed account of relations between the indigenous French population and immigrant workers and their families of non-French origin. The framework of the book is provided by two linked themes. First, the study shows how the situation of immigrants is represented ideologically by various elements of French society, as well as by the immigrants themselves, in different ways as 'problematic'. Dr Grillo examines this ideological dimension initially by contrasting the discourses of the political Right and Left concerning a range of immigrant 'problems', for example in the fields of housing, family life, school, language use and work. He then shows that not only are there significant ideological differences within both Right and Left, but also similarities between them which stem from certain basic cultural preoccupations of French thought.

Ideology · Immigration · Indigenous · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Agriculture and Rural Development Research · Gender Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Case studies · emigration and immigration · ethnic relations · Europe · France · Immigrants · Lyon · North Africans · Population · race relations

Tools

Open DOILibgen