Citizen Outsider: Children of North African Immigrants in France
Author: Jean Beaman
Publisher: University of California Press
Year of Publication: 2017
Print Length: 170
Genre: Non-Fiction / Social Science
Area: France and North Africa
People: North African
Topic: Discrimination, Human Rights, Ethnicity, Inequality, Marginalization, Ethnography/Qualitative Methodology
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 Maghrébin, 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.
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface: Black Girl in Paris
Acknowledgments
- PART ONE: North African Origins in and of the French Republic
- PART TWO: Growing up French? Education, Upward Mobility, and Connections across Generations
- PART THREE: Marginalization and Middle-Class Blues: Race, Islam, the Workplace, and the Public Sphere
- PART FOUR: French Is, French Ain’t: Boundaries of French and Maghrébin Identities
- PART FIVE: Boundaries of Difference: Cultural Citizenship and Transnational Blackness
Conclusion: Sacrificed Children of the Republic?
Methodological Appendix: Another Outsider: Doing Race from/in Another Place
Notes
References
Index
Jean Beaman is Associate Professor of Sociology, with affiliations with Black Studies, Political Science, Feminist Studies, Global Studies, and the Center for Black Studies Research, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Her research is ethnographic in nature and focuses on race/ethnicity, racism, international migration, and state violence in both France and the United States.
Source: https://www.soc.ucsb.edu/people/jean-beaman
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