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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814650503321

Autore

Kiwan Nadia

Titolo

Identities, discourses and experiences : young people of North African origin in France / / Nadia Kiwan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, England : , : Manchester University Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-5261-3037-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p. :) : ill., map ;

Disciplina

305.2308992761044

Soggetti

North Africans - France - Ethnic identity

Frankreich

Nordafrikaner

Nordafrika

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Nation, immigration, integration: the public debates of the 1980s, 1990s and twenty-first century -- 'Cultural difference', citizenship and young people: intellectual responses -- An alternative approach to post-migrant narratives? -- Individualist trajectories: social worlds and cultural positionings -- Collective identities and cultural communities? -- The socio-economics of community -- Subjective identities -- From individual to collective subjectivities?

Sommario/riassunto

The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention and exposed the limits of the Republic's policies on the integration of 'immigrant-origin' populations.This book examines academic and public discourses about young people of North African origin in France. The resurgence of such discussions in France, focusing on sensational questions of urban unrest, Islamic fundamentalism and the challenges of increasingly assertive cultural identities, means that it is all the more necessary not to overlook the 'ordinary' majority of young French-North Africans. Their own preoccupations often go unnoticed in a context where issues such as violence in the banlieues and the threat of terrorism are pushed to the fore, sometimes with devastating consequences in terms of discrimination and exclusion.The book



rebalances and nuances the debates about post-migrant North-African youth by drawing on extensive empirical research carried out in those suburbs of north-east Paris affected by the riots. It studies the construction of identity amongst this invisible majority and, by adopting an ethnographic approach, addresses the disjuncture between the sometimes inflammatory discourses about this population and their own experiences.