Reinventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France - Couverture souple

Raissiguier, Catherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0804757623 ISBN 13 : 9780804757621

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

Early one morning in 1996, the sanctuary of a Parisian church was suddenly disrupted by a police raid. A group of undocumented immigrant families had taken refuge in the church under threat of deportation due to the French state's increasingly restrictive immigration policies. Rather than disperse and hide, these sans-papiers--people literally without papers-- came together to bring to light the deep contradictions in the French state's immigration policies and practices.

Reinventing the Republic chronicles the struggle of the sans-papiers to become rights-bearing citizens, and links different social movements to reveal the many ways in which concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with debates over gender, sexuality, and immigration. Drawing on in-depth interviews and a variety of texts, this disquieting book provides new insights into how exclusion and discrimination operate and influence each other in the world today.

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À propos de l'auteur

Catherine Raissiguier is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Becoming Women/Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French High School (1994).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804757623
• ISBN 13: 9780804757621
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
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• Personne responsable: non disponible