Title Reproductive citizens : gender, immigration, and the state in modern France, 1880-1945 / Nimisha Barton

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020 ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 284 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents The Forces that Push and Pull -- Bachelors, Bureaucrats, and Marrying Into the Nation -- Wives, Wages, and Regulating Breadwinners -- Mothers, Welfare Organizations, and Reproducing for the Nation -- Neighborhood, Street Culture, and Melting-Pot Mixité -- Motherhood, Neighborhood, and Nationhood -- Neighborly Networks and Welfare Work Under Vichy Summary "In the familiar tale of mass migration to France from 1880 onward, we know very little about the hundreds of thousands of women who formed a critical part of those migration waves. This book argues that their relative absence in the historical record hints at a larger and more problematic oversight -- the role of sex and gender in shaping the experiences of migrants to France before the Second World War. This compelling history of social citizenship demonstrates how, through the routine application of social policies, state and social actors worked separately toward a shared goal: repopulating France with immigrant families. Filled with voices gleaned from census reports, municipal statistics, naturalization dossiers, court cases, police files, and social worker registers, the book shows how France welcomed foreign-born men and women -- mobilizing naturalization, family law, social policy, and welfare assistance to ensure they would procreate, bearing French-assimilated children. Immigrants often embraced these policies because they, too, stood to gain from pensions, family allowances, unemployment benefits, and French nationality. By striking this bargain, they were also guaranteed safety and stability on a tumultuous continent. The book concludes that, in return for generous social provisions and refuge in dark times, immigrants joined the French nation through marriage and reproduction, breadwinning and child-rearing -- in short, through families and family-making -- which made them more French than even formal citizenship status could."-- Provided by publisher Analysis Immigration, reproduction, social citizenship, Wartime Immigration, gender studies, migration studies, urban studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from resource home page (Oxford Academic, viewed September 8, 2022) Subject Immigrants -- Government policy -- France -- History -- 20th century Immigrants -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century Family policy -- France -- History -- 20th century Women -- France -- Social conditions -- 20th century Sex role -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century Sex role -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 19th century Citizenship -- France -- History -- 20th century HISTORY / Europe / France Citizenship Emigration and immigration Family policy Immigrants -- Government policy Immigrants -- Social conditions Politics and government Population policy Sex role -- Political aspects Women -- Social conditions SUBJECT France -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century France -- Population policy -- History -- 20th century France -- Politics and government -- 1870-1940. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051483 Subject France Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2019050552 ISBN 9781501749681 1501749684 9781501749698 1501749692

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