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Reinventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
Catherine Raissiguier
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Description for Reinventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
Paperback. This book chronicles the struggles of undocumented migrant women in France as they fight to become rights-bearing citizens, revealing how concepts of citizenship and nationality intersect with gender, sexuality, and immigration. Num Pages: 216 pages, 14 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; JFFN; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757621
SKU
V9780804757621
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About Catherine Raissiguier
Catherine Raissiguier is Associate Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at New Jersey City University. She is the author of Becoming Women/Becoming Workers: Identity Formation in a French High School (1994).
Reviews for Reinventing the Republic: Gender, Migration, and Citizenship in France
"Raissiguier makes a passionate and rigorous contribution to the contemporary debate on how traditionally universalist France treats and defines subjects who do not fall neatly within Republican categories. This is a compelling and timely study about who has the right or power to symbolize Frenchness. Raissiguier provides us with a careful and detailed history of grassroots movements, working at the ... Read more