The Politics of Alterity

Sarah Mazouz

doi:10.5771/9781538145920

The Politics of Alterity

France and her Others

Published 2022

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doi.org/10.5771/9781538145920
ISBN print: 978-1-5381-4590-6
ISBN online: 978-1-5381-4592-0
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Zusammenfassung

Is France afraid of her others? By looking back at the discourses and practices that have been formed over the last fifteen years, Sarah Mazouz addresses French politics of alterity. Drawing on an ethnographic survey conducted in both public administrations in charge of combating racial discrimination and in naturalisation offices in a large city in the Paris region, she shows how immigration, nation, and racialisation are articulated in the social space. Through the analysis of these two public offices, Mazouz questions the processes of inclusion and exclusion within the national group itself and between the national and the foreigner. In so doing, she seeks to grasp the paradoxical relationship between the French Republic and her others and the plural logics producing national order.

Schlagworte

Migration Identity citizenship antidiscrimination racialization political anthropology color blindness bureacracy

Keywords

France race ethnography alterity

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i–viii Preface i–viii
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
1–18 Introduction 1–18
19–52 Chapter One Raising the Issue of Racial Discrimination How Recognition Remained Incomplete 19–52
53–84 Chapter Two Discrimination Politics The State, Limited and Ambivalent 53–84
85–138 Chapter Three Put to the Test by the Nation Administrative Practices and Experiences of Naturalisation 85–138
139–176 Chapter Four French, and Yet Other Naturalisation Ceremonies, or the Paradox of the Category ‘Naturalised’ 139–176
177–186 Conclusion 177–186
187–210 Bibliography 187–210
211–222 Index 211–222

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