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CFTC/CFDT Attitudes towards Immigration in the Parisian Region

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  • Laure Blévis
  • Eric Pezet

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This paper, which is based on the detailed analysis of the post-war archives of the French Christian union Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens (CFTC), which became the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) in 1964, highlights the difficulties, both from a practical and ideological point of view, for a militant organisation to embrace the cause of immigrant workers and to give them a voice. The CFDT had to ‘construct’ immigrant workers as a group they could represent, which means as a group that relates to French workers, despite possible xenophobia. A key moment was the denunciation of their housing conditions that make immigrant workers not competitors in the job market but victims of injustice. The union had to reinvent its engagement frames in order to include the specific problems faced by the immigrant workforce. The study shows that the urban dimension was essential in this process as Paris slums made visible an important plight of migrants and provided the opportunity to change public opinion.

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  • Laure Blévis & Eric Pezet, 2012. "CFTC/CFDT Attitudes towards Immigration in the Parisian Region," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 49(3), pages 685-701, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:49:y:2012:i:3:p:685-701
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098011431619
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