The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity (Contradictions of Modernity, 5)

France is now a nation of immigrants. During the past thirty years, a large influx of immigrants from southern Europe and Africa has transformed French society to the point that one-third of the people currently living there have foreign-born parents or grandparents. An incisive comparison with the United States and other countries, this study looks at the issues behind France's denial of its immigrant past. Since the mid-1980s, immigration has surged to the forefront of public consciousness, leading to a growth of the nativist far right. Through a thematic exploration of the immigrant experience in France, Gerard Noiriel interweaves a discussion of past events with current issues. Among the topics discussed are why French historians and descendants of immigrants have traditionally sidestepped the immigration question; the importance and diversity of various waves of migration to France; the roles played by immigrants in the economic, social, and cultural development of the country; and the causes of periodic outbursts of xenophobia. Employing paradigms from history, sociology, and legal studies, the book also illuminates the cultural meaning of the American "melting pot".

Politics & Social Sciences

NOIRIEL, Gérard

Social Sciences

Univ of Minnesota Pr

History

This book provides a conspectus on the history of the French working class in the 19th and 20th centuries. Based on the full range of advances in social history over the last 20 years, the author shows that the French Revolution did not hasten the triumph of capitalism - on the contrary, it strengthened those sectors which were hostile to industrialization. Until the end of the 19th century the working-class world therefore continued to be torn between the two traditional opposing poles of the urban artisan and the worker-peasants of rural industry and was thus unable to achieve any long-term group organization.

Workers in French Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries (English and French Edition)

Business & Money

Economics

Berg Pub Ltd.

Population, immigration et identité nationale en France - XIXe - XXe siècle: XIXe - XXe siècle

Education & Teaching

Studying & Workbooks

HACHETTE EDUC

Les origines républicaines de Vichy (Histoires) (French Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Hachette Littératures

Le creuset français: Histoire de l'immigration, XIXe-XXe siècles (L'Univers historique) (French Edition)

SEUIL

Le creuset français (French Edition)

Le Creuset Francais (Histoire de l'immigration) [Mass Market Paperback] [Jan ...

Le Creuset français. Histoire de l'immigration (XIXe-XXe siècle) (Points histoire) (French Edition)

POINTS

<p>Les mutations récentes qu'a connues l'histoire comme discipline (tant sur la plan des pratiques que sur le plan du savoir), mais aussi l'arrivée sur le devant de la scène d'une nouvelle génération d'historiens soucieux de se démarquer de la précédente, nourrissent les interrogations de la profession sur son identité et sur son avenir.Gérard Noiriel mesure l'ampleur structurelle de cette "crise" en la situant dans le prolongement des relations contradictoires que l'histoire entretient avec la philosophie. Contestant l'idée que le "retour du récit" pourrait résoudre les difficultés actuelles, l'auteur nous invite à relire le "testament" de Marc Bloch - Apologie pour l'histoire - afin d'y puiser les matériaux nécessaires à l'élaboration d'une définition "pragmatiste" de la discipline. La réflexion sur la connaissance historique est conçue ici comme un travail collectif de clarification des pratiques de recherche visant à mieux comprendre, donc à mieux maîtriser, les activités de savoir, de mémoire et de pouvoir qui entrent dans l'exercice du "métier d'historien".</p>

Sur La Crise de L Histoire (Folio Histoire) (French Edition)

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Gallimard Education

Sur la "crise" de l'histoire

Belin

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