The Construction of Minority Identities in France and Britain

by G. Raymond (Editor)

Overview

In France the idea that a person can be both a French citizen and have an ethnic or religious identity is unacceptable, while in Britain community cohesion promote the combining of race or faith with the idea of being British. This volume examines the problems posed by these assumptions and the realities that are forcing them to be revisited.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349356898
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2007
Edition description:	1st ed. 2007
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

HARRY GOULBOURNE is Professor of Sociology at South Bank University, UK. As well as being a frequent commentator in the media, he is the author of major recent studies such as Race Relations in Britain since 1945 and editor of Race and Ethnicity . RIVA KASTORYANO is Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France, and trained as an economist as well as a sociologist. She taught at Harvard before taking up her post in Paris. Her major publications include (ed.) Les codes de la différence and Negotiating Identities. States and Immigrants in France and Germany . NADIA KIWAN possesses both a British PhD and a French doctorate from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes, France. She is currently lecturing at the University of Aberdeen, UK, and is the author of a major forthcoming study entitled Identities, Discourses and Experiences: Young People of North African Origin in France . She has also contributed to a number of edited works on race, identity and citizenship. VINCENT LATOUR is Maître de conférences at the Université de Toulouse, France, and a member of a CNRS team researching issues of identity in Europe. He is the author of Les relations raciales en Grande-Bretagne: le cas de la communauté indo-pakistanaise de Bristol and has written a number of articles on race and identity in popular journals such as Alternatives Internationales . MAX SILVERMAN is Professor of modern French studies at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of the seminal work, Deconstructing theNation: Immigration, Racism and Citizenship in Modern France . His other books reflect his interest in the intellectual culture of France and include, Facing Postmodernity: Contemporary French Thought on Culture and Society . PNINA WERBNER is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Keele, UK, and an expert in migrations, community formation and the role of women. Her recent books include: The Migration Process ; Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims ; and Pilgrims of Love: the Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult . MICHEL WIEVIORKA is Professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France, and one of France's leading sociologists. He has authored over 20 books covering areas such as racism, multiculturalism and social movements. Recent titles include: The Arena of Racism ; La différence ; and La tentation anti-sémite . He is also editor of the monthly magazine, Le Monde des Débats . CATHERINE WITHOL DE WENDEN is Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques, France, and has spent the past two decades studying international migrations and the challenges they pose. She has been an adviser on these matters to the OECD, the European Commission and the UNHCR. Her recent books include L'Europe des migrations and Atlas des migrations dans le monde .

Table of Contents

Introduction; G.Raymond & T.Modood PART ONE: APPROACHES TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF MINORITY IDENTITIES Secularism and the Accommodation of Muslims; T.Modood & R.Kastoryano The Construction of What?; M.Wieviorka Debating Cultural Difference in France; C.Wihtol de Wenden The French Republic Unveiled; M.Silverman PART TWO: EXPERIENCING THE CONSTRUCTION OF MINORITY IDENTITIES Shifting Socio-Cultural Identities: Young People of North African Origin in France; N.Kiwan Converging at Last? France, Britain and their Minorities; V.Latour Veiled Interventions in Pure Space: Honour, Shame and Embodied Struggles Among Muslims in Britain and France; P.Werbner The Construction of Identity, Integration and Participation of Caribbeans in British Society; H.Goulbourne