Nation-freezing: Images of the nation and the migrant in citizenship packages

New nationalism differs from classical nationalism in terms of its content and focus. Whereas classical nationalism distinguishes itself from other nation-states in defining its national identity, new nationalism distinguishes the 'native' national identity from that of its current and prospective citizens of migrant origin. The terms of integration thus become conditions of membership in the national community. Citizenship and integration policies emerge as central arenas where the discourse of new nationalism unfolds. This study looks into the discourses of cultural citizenship by studying the content of the official 'citizenship packages' - materials designed to welcome newcomers and assist them in their integration - in three Western European countries: The Netherlands, France and the UK. What images are depicted of the nation-state and the migrant in citizenship packages, and (how) do these images freeze the nation?

La contractualisation de l'accueil des migrants en France

Le texte qui suit est extrait du rapport 2003 publié par le Haut Conseil à l'intégration*. Il fixe le cadre intellectuel du contrat d'accueil et d'intégration prévu pour la politique d'accueil des nouveaux arrivants en France.Haut Conseil à l'intégration. La contractualisation de l'accueil des migrants en France. In: Hommes et Migrations, n°1261, Mai-juin 2006. Accueillir autrement. pp. 33-40

Annexe 4 : L’obtention d’un premier titre de séjour : et après ?

Dans la majorité des cas, l’obtention d’un premier titre de séjour d’un an est suivi par la délivrance d’un deuxième titre, mais ce renouvellement consiste dans la plupart des cas en un strict remplacement par un titre de durée équivalente. Pour les étrangers n’y ayant pas eu droit dès leur entrée en France, l’accès à une carte de résident de dix ans est donc, en moyenne, un processus assez lent. Ces probabilités de transformation présentent de grandes disparités selon le motif d’immigration : les membres de famille bénéficient des meilleures possibilités, tandis que, pour des raisons réglementaires, les étudiants ont une trajectoire administrative ancrée dans la succession de titres "courts". A la différence du processus de transformation d’un titre "court" en un titre long, il n’est pas possible d’établir avec précision la fréquence des changements de statut fondée sur l’analyse des motifs de délivrance des titres successifs. Cette étude tente de pallier à la déficience de connaissances statistiques sur la fréquence des retours

The role of regulatory and temporal context in the construction of diversity discourses: The case of the UK, France and Germany, European Journal of Industrial Relations

Despite growing interest in how the concept of diversity management is reinterpreted as it crosses national boundaries, there has been little study of this process in Europe. To bridge this knowledge gap, this article explores the construction of diversity discourses in the context of the UK, France and Germany. We use the discursive politics approach to investigate the ways in which the meaning of diversity is shrunk, bent and stretched. We demonstrate that the concept of diversity has no universal fixed meaning but is contextual, contested and temporal. Temporarily fixed definitions and frames of diversity are path-dependent and shaped by the regulatory context. Thus unique national histories and the context of regulation are key determinants of the ways in which the concept is redefined as it crosses national and regional borders

As French as Anyone Else: Islam and the North African Second Generation in France

Amid growing Islamophobia throughout Europe, Muslims in France have been described as “ethnoracial outsiders” (Bleich 2006, 3–7) and framed as a cultural challenge to the identity of the French republic. Based on ethnographic research of 45 middle class adult children of North African, or Maghrébin, immigrants, I focus on the actual religious practices of this segment of the French Muslim population, the symbolic boundaries around those practices, and the relationship between how middle class, North African second-generation immigrants understand their marginalization within mainstream society and how they frame their religiosity to respond to this marginalization. How respondents frame their practices reveals their allegiance with the tenets of French Republicanism and laïcité as well as shows how Muslim religious practices are being accommodated to the French context. This religiosity is not a barrier to asserting a French identity. Individuals frame their religious practices in ways that suggest they see themselves as just as French as anyone else