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Anti-Racist Policies in France. From Ideological and Historical Schemes to Socio-Political Realities

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  • Marie-Cecile Naves

    (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Paris)

  • John Crowley

    (the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR), Paris)

Abstract

In France, since the 1980s, imaginaries derived from decolonization have played a major role in the elaboration of anti-racist policies. Simultaneously, because of the universalistic conception of the French Republic, the use of ethnic categories has been taboo and systematically replaced, in political schemes, by socio-economic criteria. Multiculturalism, in the Anglo-Saxon meaning, has therefore not been a traditional political analysis framework. Nevertheless, since the 1990s, the French model of integration, which was based on the individual, has been more and more accused of giving way to inequalities and racism. For ten years, the rise of the concept of the «ethnicization» of cultural groups in public debate has thus inspired political demands that require concrete answers, notably against urban violence and education.

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  • Marie-Cecile Naves & John Crowley, 2003. "Anti-Racist Policies in France. From Ideological and Historical Schemes to Socio-Political Realities," Working Papers 2003.98, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei.
    • Handle: RePEc:fem:femwpa:2003.98
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    Keywords

    Anti-racist policies; French model of integration; Multiculturalism; Ethnicization; Urban violence; Education;
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    • Z10 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - General

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