Undesirable

Boittin, Jennifer Anne

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“…Suspect citizenship reveals how racism is evident in practices and discourses of state violence. Suspect citizenship also evidences colonial continuities, as the populations that are presently suspect were the suspect or undesirable subjects of the French colonial empire (Boittin, 2022). The specter of state violence therefore structures the lives of nonwhite individuals in Franceconditioning them as suspicious and forever marginalized.…”

Section: Towards a Framework Of Suspect Citizenshipmentioning

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From cultural citizenship to suspect citizenship: Notes on rethinking full societal inclusion

Beaman

2023

Cultural Dynamics

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Based on past and current ethnographic research and interviews with ethnic minorities in the Parisian metropolitan region, I argue that despite France’s colorblind and Republican ethos, France’s “visible minorities” function under a “suspect citizenship” in which their full societal belonging is never granted. I focus on the growing problem of state violence against ethnic minorities which reveals how France is creating a “bright boundary” (Alba 2005) between whites and non-whites, furthering disparate outcomes based on race and ethnic origin. By considering the multifaceted dimensions of citizenship and belonging in France, I demonstrate the limitations of full societal inclusion for France’s non-white denizens and how French Republicanism continues to mark, rather than erase, racial and ethnic distinctions.

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Section: Towards a Framework Of Suspect Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%