Reconstructing citizenship : the politics of nationality reform and immigration in contemporary France /
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| Author / Creator: | Feldblum, Miriam. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1999. |
| Description: | x, 227 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in national identities SUNY series in national identities. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4049468 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1.. Studying Citizenship: A Political-Process Approach
- Introduction
- Citizenship Reform as a Process, Not a Product
- Culturalist, Structuralist, Institutionalist, and Political-Process Analyses of Citizenship
- French Citizenship Reform as a Case Study
- Research Strategy and Plan of the Book
- Chapter 2.. The new Immigrants and Citizenship
- Contemporary Immigration in France
- Immigrants and Citizenship Status
- Chapter 3.. Politicizing Citizenship in French Immigration Politics
- The Transformations of Pluralism in France
- Immigrant Associations and the Right to Difference
- The Pluralist Debates and the Extreme Right
- The Contested National Identity
- The Left, National Identity, and Citizenship
- Immigrants, National Identity, and the New Citizenship
- National Identity Debates, Racial Politics, and Nativism
- Conclusion: From National Identity to Citizenship
- Chapter 4.. Re-Envisioning Citizenship: the Debates Over the Nationality Code
- From National Identity to Nationality Code
- The Voluntarist Arguments
- Voluntarism and the Left
- The Communitarian Arguments
- Communitarianism and the Left
- The Nativist Arguments
- Nativism and the Left
- The Constraints of French Ideologies
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5.. The Reform, the State, and the Political Process
- State Constraints on a Reform
- The Four Objectives of the Bureau of Nationality
- Agendas, Autonomy, and Dissension Within the State
- The Reform and the Political Process
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6.. Reconstructing Citizenship: the Nationality Commission
- The Fusion of National Identity and Pluralism
- National Identity and Concerns About European Integration
- Reinforcing National Identity and National Integration
- Elective Conception of the Nation and a Voluntarist Citizenship
- Reaffirming and Resituating the Statist Perspective
- Reactions to the Commission's Report
- Chapter 7.. Who's Wearing the Veil? Ethnic Politics and the New Citizenship
- Immigrants to Ethnics: Constraints on Ethnic Citizenship and Difference
- Contemporary Challenges
- L'Affaire du Foulard: Creating the Affair
- Defining the Drama
- Managing the Affair
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8.. Nationality Reform in the 1990s
- Citizenship Reform, Membership Traditions, and the Political Process
- Domestic Political Processes and Changes in Citizenship
- Appendix A. State Agencies, Political Parties, Social Organizations, and Immigrant Associations at Which Interviews Were Conducted
- Appendix B. Legislative Propositions to Reform the Nationality Code
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index