African immigrant families in another France [Elektronisk resurs] sub-Saharan African immigrants in France / Loretta E. Bass.

• PART I: AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS AND FRANCE 1. Introduction - 'Another France' 2. Why Study Sub-Saharan Black African Immigrants in France? 3. A Post-colonial Bouillabaisse: Africans in France - Context and Theory PART II: STRUCTURAL AND CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS 4. Social Structures Shaping Immigrant Integration - 'The Power of Skin' 5. Cultural Differences, Asserting Oneself, and Religion - 'Take Your Place' 6. Identity and the Integration of Youth - 'French on the Inside' PART III: THEORIZING INTEGRATION AND CONCLUSIONS 7. Conclusions - Inequality, (Dis)Location and Sub-Saharan African Inclusion.

• Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the conflict and issues pertinent to social integration. -- Immigrant incorporation has become a key issue for France and other European societies. This book uses voices of individuals within Sub-Saharan African immigrant families to describe their integration experience as 'Another France.' Racialization is inherent in the immigration process for African migrants, and a low immigrant status is granted, limiting their employment and social integration, and many times irrespective of their qualifications or citizenship documents. First- and second-generation African youth report being, 'French on the inside, African on the out' because they hold a French mentality but are continually put into an 'other' category. The 'power of skin' accords this status of 'immigrant other' which infiltrates all of their social interactions. Further, the practices of French universalism and secularism taken together have become in essence a straightjacket and 'ostrich policy' for France. 

Ämnesord

Social integration  -- France. (LCSH)

Immigrants  -- France. (LCSH)

Africans  -- France. (LCSH)

Society.  (ukslc)

Migration, immigration & emigration  -- France -- Sub-Saharan Africa. (thema)

Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies  -- France -- Sub-Saharan Africa. (thema)

France  -- Emigration and immigration. (LCSH)

Africa, French speaking  -- Emigration and immigration. (LCSH)

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