Citizen Outsider Children of North African Immigrants in France

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland University of California Press 2017
• Subjects: Migration, immigration & emigration; Society & social sciences; Banlieue; children of immigrants; cultural citizenship; france; French people; international migration; islam; Middle class; north african; Paris; postcolonial; race and ethnicity; racial project; second generation; Social exclusion; United States
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (168 p.)
• ISBN: 9780520967441; luminos.39
• Access: Open Access

While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of maghrébin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.