Des minorités pas comme les autres ?

Haddad, Marine

doi:10.3917/rfs.594.0649

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“…While Haiti gained its independence in 1804, the current overseas departments (Martinique, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, and the Reunion Island in the Indian ocean) became fully integrated in the republic in 1946, thus granting their population French citizenship. Yet scholars have characterized the citizenship of French Caribbean people living in the mainland as “ambivalent,” standing in between French citizenship and foreignness (Célestine 2011), and describe high levels of reported discrimination and racism (Haddad 2018). The fact that the African subgroup’s results are not significant suggests the explanation for the Haiti/DOM case may lie in a distinctive trait beyond racialization as Black for most of these populations.…”

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Race, Cultural Capital, and School Achievement in Race-Blind France

Planson

2022

Sociol Educ

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Scholarship examining the role of cultural capital in school outcomes in relation to race and ethnicity in the French context is scarce. This article seeks to test how various potential forms of cultural capital, beyond the most traditional ones, are associated with school grades relationally with French students’ backgrounds. Using Ministry of Education data to perform regression analyses on old and new forms of cultural capital, I find some evidence of differences in their association with grades. Reading, internet, documentaries, sport, and music practice are all associated with higher school grades, but less so for Haiti and overseas- origin children for four practices out of five. This study contributes to research on ethnic/racial inequalities in the French school system and to broader conversations around the contemporary redefinition of cultural capital by showing that racial inequalities can be reproduced in schools through a wide array of cultural practices.

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Race, Cultural Capital, and School Achievement in Race-Blind France

Planson

2022

Sociol Educ

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“…In the same way, ethnographic research in Switzerland shows how non-White citizens with migrant backgrounds often self-align with a White Swiss national identity to distance themselves from other immigrants, thereby “performing a ‘new’ national identity” (Cretton 2017:856). Qualitative studies from France further underline how non-White migrants from the French overseas departments strategically used their French-by-birth citizenship to distinguish themselves from other migrants (Haddad 2018).…”

Section: Becoming a “French By Birth” Citizen: Mechanisms And Hypothesesmentioning

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Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data

Caron,

McAvay,

Safi

2023

Am Sociol Rev

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Citizenship is a fundamental boundary in contemporary societies that entails rights, a sense of belonging, and social status. Drawing on longitudinal census data, this article tracks individual changes in self-reported citizenship over 30 years in France. Respondents choose one of three categories: “French by birth,” “became French,” or “foreigner.” The first category should be stable over the life course: one is born, but cannot become, “French by birth.” Yet, our findings indicate that about 19 percent of foreign-origin respondents in a given census switch to “French by birth” declarations at the next census, in a process we call reclassification. Immigrant assimilation variables, such as nativity and length of stay, and events such as intermarriage, naturalization, and residential mobility, trigger reclassification. Yet reclassification is also higher among individuals with lower socioeconomic status and respondents of African and Southeast Asian origin, as well as those with origins in former French colonies. These findings suggest reclassification is a byproduct of immigrant assimilation, which triggers feelings of national identity, as well as status upgrading, whereby disadvantaged and discriminated groups change their citizenship declaration to compensate for low social status. Empirically novel, reclassification offers original theoretical insights into the meanings of citizenship, civic stratification, and boundary-crossing.

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“…Moreover, there are many more employment opportunities in metropolitan France than in the DOM: far above the 10% observed in metropolitan France, unemployment rates in the French overseas have stagnated around 25% for the past 10 years (Treyens and Catherine, 2015). Last, migrants from the French overseas face racism and discrimination in metropolitan France due to their skin colour, their accent or representations rooted in the French colonial past (Haddad, 2018; Safi & Simon, 2013).…”

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Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas

Haddad

Caron

2022

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores the role of migrants' family dynamics over the life cycle on their decisions to return focusing on three dimensions: relationship status, children and intergenerational solidarities. It brings a unique contribution to migration studies by investigating whether these mechanisms differ for male and female migrants.Combining two surveys (Migration Family Ageing and Trajectories and Origins) collected in the origin and destination regions, we study return behaviours of migrants born in the French Overseas departments (DOM) moving from metropolitan France back to their DOM of birth. Contrasting with traditional research which tends to restrict the analysis of family considerations to female migrants, our findings show that family experiences affect return migrations for both men and women, yet in different ways. While partnering, breaking-up and having children affect the returns of both men and women, only female migrants are more likely to return when their parent(s) live in the DOM. This could draw back to a gendered distribution of family roles and responsibilities, but also to gendered networks with stronger ties between female migrants and their parents.

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Des minorités pas comme les autres ?

Cited by 9 publications

References 54 publications

Race, Cultural Capital, and School Achievement in Race-Blind France

Race, Cultural Capital, and School Achievement in Race-Blind France

Born Again French: Explaining Inconsistency in Citizenship Declarations in French Longitudinal Data

Transregional spouses, parents and children: How gender and family shape return migration in the French overseas

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