Black African immigrants in France and claims for housing

Bibliographic Data

ID3634313
AuthorsCécile Péchu (Université de Rennes, corresponding author)
Year1999
Volume25
Issue4
Pages727-744
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Community (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1369183x.1999.9976712
OpenAlexW2087924629
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited16

The mid‐1980s in France saw the emergence of an activist movement focusing on the issue of housing. Until 1993, primarily African families made up the social basis of this movement. I study its genesis from two perspectives: first, a macro‐sociological angle identifying the structural modifications to African immigration as the reason why it came about in 1986 and, second, a micro‐sociological angle focusing more specifically on the iterative process of social action at the time. It is the transformations of African immigration to France at the beginning of the 1980s and changes to the housing market in Paris area that encourage the appearance of the movement leading to housing claims. The collective action can only develop, however, because black African immigrants in France already have minimum ‘indigenous’ resources. The genesis of the mobilisation as a process is considered from a micro‐sociological perspective. This approach serves to show that a defensive mobilisation contained a certain number of advantages for a group with low levels of resources. It alone allows legitimate use of community networks, even though the French conception of citizenship assumes their non‐existence

Citizenship · Collective action · Development economics · Economics · Immigration · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Social movement · Social science · Sociological imagination · Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Migration, Identity, and Health · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

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