| Description |
1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Contents |
Identities, discourses and experiences: Young people of North African origin in France -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on text -- Map of Seine-Saint-Denis -- PART I: Public and intellectual discourses of immigration -- Introduction -- 1. Nation, immigration, integration: the public debates of the 1980s,1990s and twenty-first century -- Introduction -- Nations and nationalisms -- The politicisation of immigration -- 2. 'Cultural difference', citizenship and young people: intellectual responses -- Introduction |
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Cultural difference and multiculturalism -- Citizenship and community -- Les jeunes and La banlieue -- From theory to practice: fieldwork in Seine-Saint-Denis -- 3. An alternative approach to post-migrant narratives? Subjectivity and identity -- Introduction -- Subjectivity -- Identity -- PART II: Post-migrant discourses -- 4. Individualist trajectories: social worlds and cultural positionings -- Introduction and data collection method -- Individual identity and the social -- Individual identity and culture -- 5. Collective identities and cultural communities? -- Introduction |
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Cultural positionings -- The dynamics of group unity -- 6. The socio-economics of community -- Introduction -- The banlieue as a community: solidarity, mentality and stigma -- Micro-communities within the banlieue -- 7. Subjective identities -- Introduction -- Three axes of subjectivity -- Advanced subjectivity -- Fragmented subjectivity -- Thwarted subjectivity -- 8. From individual to collective subjectivities? -- Introduction -- Young French-North Africans and the political -- Young French-North Africans and associations -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Glossary |
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Appendix I: summarised interviewee biographies -- Appendix II: photographs -- Index |
| Summary |
The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention and exposed the limits of the Republic's integration policies concerning its 'immigrant-origin' populations. This book focuses on one of these groups - the French-born descendants of North African immigrants |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
North Africans -- France -- Ethnic identity
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North Africans -- Ethnic identity
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France
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781526130372 |
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1526130378 |
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