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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456976003321

Autore

Brouard Sylvain

Titolo

As French as everyone else? [[electronic resource] ] : a survey of French citizens of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish origin / / Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj ; translated by Jennifer Fredette ; foreword by Paul M. Sniderman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-13381-4

9786613133816

1-4399-0297-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TiberjVincent

Disciplina

305.9/069120944

Soggetti

Immigrants - France - Attitudes

Muslims - France - Attitudes

Social integration - France

Emigration and immigration - Religious aspects - Islam

Electronic books.

France Emigration and immigration Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword to the English Edition by Paul M. Sniderman; A Note on the Translation; Foreword to the French Edition by Pascal Perrineau; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why This Question?; 1. Are the New French More Religious and Less Laïque?; All Muslims?; Are Muslims More Religious?; Can We Speak of a Re-Islamization in France?; Islam Is Not Part of a Retreat from French Society; Laïcité: A Danger to or Protection for Muslims?; Church and State Relations; 2. Integration into the French Political System; Confidence in French Democracy; Political Preoccupations

An Alignment with the Left Leftist Chiracians?; Religion and Political Orientation; 3. A Welfare Culture?; Liberty or Equality; Acceptance of the Rules of the Economy; Attitudes toward the Role of the State; Work and Success; An Omnipresent Culture of Material Success; Immigration, a Culture of Success; 4. Women, Mores, and Homosexuality; The Less



Authoritarian French; A France That Is Uncertain about Moral Order; No More Lax, No More Authoritarian; The More Conservative French; A Lower Level of Sexual Permissiveness; A Lower Level of Permissiveness in Most Social Groups

Religion and Permissiveness Consequences of Lower Sexual Tolerance: Exogamy and the Veil; 5. Racism and Anti-Semitism; The Less Racist French; Origin Is Not the Explanation; Impact of the Economic Situation; ""Anti-Semitism of the Suburbs"" in Question; Anti-Semitism among Only a Minority, But a Large Minority; Anti-Semitism of the New French; The Religious Factor; The Relationship between Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism: More Complex than Expected; 6. Integration and Equal Opportunity; Assessment of and Vision for Integration; Support for Affirmative Action

Evaluation of Equal Opportunity Policies 7. What Identity/Identities?; Attachment to Country of Origin; Identification with the French; Racism, Identities, and Communautarisme; Minorities and Communautarisme: Danger or Fantasy?; Conclusion: As French as Everyone Else; Appendix: Methodology; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

France is often depicted as the model of assimilationist or republican integration in the international literature on immigration. However, rarely have surveys drilled down to provide individual responses from a double representative sample. In As French as Everyone Else?, Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of integration in France and challenge the usual crisis of integration by systematically comparing the ""new French"" immigrants, as well as their children and grandchildren born in France, with a sample of the French general