Reinventing the Republic
eBook - ePub

Reinventing the Republic

Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France

  1. 216 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reinventing the Republic

Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Table of Figures
  6. PREFACE
  7. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  8. INTRODUCTION: TAKING ON THE REPUBLIC
  9. 1 SANS-PAPIERS: PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS
  10. 2 FRAMING THE SANS-PAPIÈRES
  11. 3 THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN FRANCE
  12. 4 FAMILY MATTERS: IMMIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHY, AND NATIONAL POLITICS
  13. 5 OF POLISH PLUMBERS AND SENEGALESE CLEANING LADIES
  14. 6 NANAS, PÉDÉS, IMMIGRÉS: SOLIDARITÉ?
  15. CONCLUSION
  16. APPENDIX
  17. NOTES
  18. BIBLIOGRAPHY
  19. INDEX