
Reinventing the Republic
Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
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-papiersâpeople literally without papersâ 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
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Table of Figures
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION: TAKING ON THE REPUBLIC
- 1 SANS-PAPIERS: PEOPLE AND MOVEMENTS
- 2 FRAMING THE SANS-PAPIĂRES
- 3 THE LEGAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN IN FRANCE
- 4 FAMILY MATTERS: IMMIGRATION, DEMOGRAPHY, AND NATIONAL POLITICS
- 5 OF POLISH PLUMBERS AND SENEGALESE CLEANING LADIES
- 6 NANAS, PĂDĂS, IMMIGRĂS: SOLIDARITĂ?
- CONCLUSION
- APPENDIX
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX