La Tyrannie Du National: le droit d'asile en europe 1793-1993

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Mise en place d'un reseau europeen de chercheurs Histoire des identites nationales, du racisme et des migrations en Europe

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Olympe de Gouges’s trial and the affective politics of denaturalization in France

Article 25 of the French civil code grants the state the possibility to deprive French citizens of their nationality, unless denaturalization results in making them stateless. This article contends that the contemporary politics of denaturalization reactivates an affective principle of control and exclusion already at play from the French Revolution, when citizenship became, for the first time, a decisive category in the new national juridical and political system. More specifically, the article explores the case of Olympe de Gouges’s trial in 1793, where the Revolutionary Court’s interpretation of ‘love for the patrie’ distinctively shaped the limits of citizenship. Based on the idea that ‘love for the patrie and for the truth’ demarcated between friends and foes, the Court’s verdict established the meaning of ‘love for the patrie’ as the requirement of consent, and specified that affective interpretive practices were to be considered a juridical political means of inclusion and exclusion

Un siecle d'integration des immigres dans le Pays Haut Lorrain : approches socio-historiques

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Social Problem Construction and National Context: News Reporting on "Overweight" and "Obesity" in the United States and France

Drawing on analyses of American and French news reports on "overweight" and "obesity," this article examines how national context—including position in a global field of nation states, as well as different national politics and culture—shapes the framing of social problems. As has been shown in previous research, news reports from France—the economically dominated but culturally dominant nation of the two—discuss the United States more often than vice versa, typically in a negative way. Our contribution is to highlight the flexibility of anti-American rhetoric, which provides powerful ammunition for a variety of social problem frames. Specifically, depending on elite interests, French news reports may invoke anti-American rhetoric to reject a given phenomenon as a veritable public problem, or they may use such rhetoric to drum up concern over an issue. We further show how diverse cultural factors shape news reporting. Despite earlier work showing that a group-based discrimination frame is more common in the United States than in France, we find that the U.S. news sample is no more likely to discuss weight-based discrimination than the French news sample. We attribute this to specific barriers to this particular framing, namely the widespread view that body size is a behavior, akin to smoking, rather than an ascribed characteristic, like race. This discussion points, more generally, to some of the mechanisms limiting the diffusion of frames across social problems