Towards the unmaking of the French mainstream
The empirical turn in immigrant assimilation and the making of Frenchness
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3651900 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sandrine Bertaux (0000-0001-7451-8791, Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1496-1512 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-14 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-9586 • E-ISSN: 1469-9451 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/1369183x.2015.1119651 |
| OpenAlex | W2226305181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
In the current debates on assimilation and multiculturalism, France occupies the position of the incontrovertible case in colour-blind civic assimilation. This description of France overlooks the empirical turn in immigrant assimilation France took when the first ever census-based survey conducted on the assimilation of immigrants and their France-born children, known after its French acronym MGIS (Mobilité géographique et insertion sociale), promoted ethnic origin as its primary principle of classification. This article offers an institutional account of the making of the MGIS survey and a critical examination of its ethnic categorisation. It argues that the MGIS survey generated a paradox in assimilation according to which only by violating the precept of colour-blindness in the realm of public statistics can immigrant assimilation be measured and only by reconstructing a presumably culturally homogeneous core population of Français de souche (‘French of French stock’) as opposed to the cultural and ethnic difference of those of ‘foreign descent’ can immigrant assimilation be evaluated. The MGIS survey marks a step towards the unmaking of the French institutional mainstream by instilling these categories across state institutions as the way to read and act upon French society
Cultural assimilation · Ethnic group · Immigration · Linguistics · Mainstream · Multiculturalism · Political science · Population · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France
Deconstructing the Nation
Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany
The Multiculturalism Backlash
The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany, and the United States
Toward Assimilation and Citizenship
Remaking the American Mainstream
From Algerie Francaise to France Musulmane
The multiculturalism backlash
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
Color Lines
The New Second Generation
The debate on immigration and the crisis of national identity
Rethinking Assimilation Theory for a New Era of Immigration
The retreat of multiculturalism in the liberal state
Laïcité and multiculturalism
Assimilation, insertion, intégration
Un siecle d'immigration etrangere en France
De l'étranger à l'immigré
Chronique de l'immigration
Chronique de l'immigration
An excess of alterity? Debating difference in a multicultural society
The return of assimilation? Changing perspectives on immigration and its sequels in France, Germany, and the United States
One Hundred Million Frenchmen
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2020 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |