Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France

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While portrayals of immigrants and their descendants in France and throughout Europe often center on burning cars and radical Islam, Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France paints a different picture. Through fieldwork and interviews in Paris and its banlieues, Jean Beaman examines middle-class and upwardly mobile children of Maghr bin, or North African immigrants. By showing how these individuals are denied cultural citizenship because of their North African origin, she puts to rest the notion of a French exceptionalism regarding cultural difference, race, and ethnicity and further centers race and ethnicity as crucial for understanding marginalization in French society.


Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Beaman, Jean
Published: 09/12/2017
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 9780520294264
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.39d