Resistance to identity categorization in France

Blum, Alain

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511606045.006

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“…However, in the 1990s, European population literature began to draw special attention to the labor contributions of international migration versus the competition immigrants could pose to longstanding residents and citizens, and later the potential costs and gains of raising their children. See also van de Kaa, 1993;Massey, ed., 1998;Blum, 2002;and 4. For a stark example from India, see Das, 1995; see also the collection in which it was published (Ginsburg and Rapp, eds, 1995).…”

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Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe

Bledsoe¹

2004

DemRes

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Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe

Bledsoe¹

2004

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“…It is obvious that the biographical dimension of the integration process necessitates a research approach that goes beyond "ethnic belonging" in its attempt to understand individual outcomes (Blum 2002). Although ethnic markers are part of an individual's make-up, they also interact with other dynamic factors.…”

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Unemployment of people of foreign origin in France: The role of discrimination

Richard¹

2013

CSP

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This article has two primary objectives: (1) the 1968, 1975, 1982, 1990, and 1999 censuses. The interest in individual trajectories requires us to consider the relations between personal labour market situations and the acquisition of French nationality. This relation must be analyzed in light of the population which consists of those children who, since childhood, have been in a position to acquire French citizenship. Although gaining citizenship is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political assimilation among immigrants, it can also be seen as a factor in their economic assimilation. French nationality makes it easier for young immigrants to get jobs. It is better to be a young Algerian or Moroccan with French nationality than to be a young Algerian or Moroccan who does not have French nationality.Keywords: migrants' children in France, discrimination, labour market, longitudinal analysis, citizenship. de 1968, 195, 1982, 1990 et 1999. L'intérêt Résumé Cet article a deux objectifs: étudier la relation entre l'origine des personnes issues de l'immigration étrangère en France et la fréquence des situations de chômage les concernant et examiner la rôle possible de la discrimination à leur encontre. L'Echantillon démographique permanent (EDP, une base de données longitudinale de l'Institut nationale de la statistique et des études économiques) permet l'étude des trajectoires des personnes issues de l'immigration qui ont grandi en France, qu'elles y soient nées ou non. L'EDP est une base de données dérivée du recensement, il comprend environ 1 de la population vivant en France. Cette base de données comprend des informations et variables sur la nationalité d'un individu et des informations sur sa situation sur le marché du travail. L'EDP contient aussi les informations pertinentes sur les parents et leurs enfants. Cette source statistique a été créée en 1967 et contient des données issues des recensements

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“…However, the possibility of using such categorizations to tackle discrimination apparently does not provide sufficient justification for the construction of ethnic categories in official statistics. The misfit between the vastness of the debate, particularly in France, which is triggered by the mere possibility of constructing ethnic categories in statistics (see for an overview: Spire and Merllié 1998;Blum 2002) on the one hand and the limited number of studies pertaining to the actual possibilities of operationalization of ethnicity on the other hand (Bulmer 1996;Simon 1997Simon , 1998Aspinall 2002;Lie 2002) attests to the strong political dimension of the matter. The political passions which feed the scientific debate strongly demonstrate that the definition of statistical categories on ethnicity and race is not merely a technical matter.…”

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The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe

Jacobs

Swyngedouw

Hanquinet

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Int. Migration & Integration

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Different European nation-states use the most diverse statistical constructions of foreign origin or ethnic minority populations. Several countries traditionally even shun from producing such data. This makes international comparison a very difficult endeavour. Anyone wanting to perform comparative Int. Migration & Integration (2009) research on immigrants or (immigrant origin) ethnic minorities in Europe is unavoidably confronted with the most diverse types of national statistical data and has to opt for ad hoc solutions. Attempts at international comparison can thus be very tricky due to data characteristics. It is important that researchers are aware of these problems and do not simply accept data (especially in comparisons) at face value. In this article we embark on a comparative explorative study of the way in which immigrant background and immigration related ethnicity is taken stock of by national statistical institutes in a set of European nation-states.Résumé Les États-nations européens utilisent des constructions statistiques très diversifiées afin de compter leurs minorités ethniques ou leurs populations issues de l'immigration. Plusieurs pays s'interdisent même de produire de telles données. Ceci entrave largement la comparaison internationale. Ceux qui veulent faire de la recherche comparative portant sur la situation des immigrés ou des minorités ethniques (issues de l'immigration) en Europe, seront confrontés à une grande diversité de données statistiques nationales qui sont peu comparables. Pour cette raison, la comparaison internationale sera toujours difficile, voir risquée. Il est important que les chercheurs soient conscients des limites et des risques liés à ce problème. Dans cet article nous entamons une étude comparative exploratoire des différentes stratégies de catégorisation ethnique utilisées par les instituts nationaux de statistiques dans une série d'États-nations européens.

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Resistance to identity categorization in France

Cited by 37 publications

References 16 publications

Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe

Reproduction at the Margins: Migration and Legitimacy in the New Europe

Unemployment of people of foreign origin in France: The role of discrimination

The challenge of measuring immigrant origin and immigration-related ethnicity in Europe

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