Citizen Outsider : Children of North African Immigrants in France

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 e...

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Main Author: Beaman, Jean (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Oakland University of California Press 2017
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