The vote on the immigration law this December 19 infringes on the fundamental rights of the Republic and conveys a caricatured vision of immigration on which the social sciences have for a long time provided an informed and precise perspective, far from ideological shortcuts.
The vote by Parliament, Tuesday December 19, 2023, on the immigration law marks a break in the republican history of France. The inclusion in this text of measures inspired by the program of the National Rally, relayed by the Republican right and endorsed by the majority in place, undermines respect for fundamental rights, equality before the law and the dignity of individuals.
In particular, this law caricatures and disfigures a subject on which the human and social sciences provide an informed and measured view. The problem is simplified, reduced to the choice that must be made between humanism and identity, between idealism and realism.
However, there are documented and rigorous studies that allow us to ask questions precisely, far from ideological shortcuts and preconceived ideas.
Is immigration an economic problem??
Debates on immigration often presuppose that it generates costs, or even is a burden from the point of view of employment, public finances or growth. Contemporary research shows rather the opposite. To highlight the burden on public finances that reception constitutes is to fail to see that the integration of migrants, who work and consume, has beneficial economic effects. Immigration does not increase unemployment, does not widen the public accounts deficit, does not reduce the standard of living. On the contrary, it allows professions to operate, it rejuvenates an aging population. And far from being underqualified, immigration as a whole is increasingly qualified.
Immigration, an economic burden? Interview with Ekrame Boubtane
Debates on immigration often presuppose that it generates costs, or even is a burden from the point of view of employment, public finances or growth. Contemporary research shows rather the opposite, as economist Ekrame Boubtane explains.
International students: immigrants like any other?
The causes, motives and temporalities of the stays of international students distinguish them from other immigrants but with what consequences, for the future of these students, for qualified immigration in France, and for our understanding of migratory flows?
Sarkozy's immigration policy
In a profoundly original collective book, twenty-three contributors analyze the methods of treatment of foreigners in France. Their study, both an exploration of administrative processes and a description of individual and collective journeys, goes beyond the stage of indignation to evaluate the political and social results of French immigration policy. chosen.
Is immigration responsible for an increase in delinquency??
The media focus on a few news items makes it clear: public order is not threatened by immigration. THE young man from the cities, uncivil and rebellious, is a media and political construction, much more than a proven social reality. And while the ius migrandi has been recognized as the first of natural and universal rights and as the foundation of modern international law, it is immigration which, little by little, has become an offense, the foreigner in an irregular situation now being considered as a criminal.
THE problem of immigration
What is immigration: a social phenomenon or public problem? What is an immigrant: an illegal worker employed at low prices on construction sites, a young people from the suburbs preferably in a band and rather Muslim, or a future citizen deserving of the French nation? All these images are deconstructed by the latest issue of the magazine agony.
When immigration is a crime
For several years, Community law and national laws, particularly in France and Italy, have implemented a utilitarian and repressive immigration control policy. The criminalization of migration policies shows that European cooperation can be synonymous with regression of the law.
Do the French massively want a tougher welcome, or even a closing of borders??
The development of migration policies depends more and more on public opinion itself influenced by media exposure. Social practices, however, demonstrate openness and goodwill towards strangers. Beyond political exploitation, practices of hospitality, reception and integration of foreigners continue to be supported by a vast network of associations and actors in civil society.
A less xnophobic France?
What is immigration: a social phenomenon or public problem? What is an immigrant: an illegal worker employed at low prices on construction sites, a young people from the suburbs preferably in a band and rather Muslim, or a future citizen deserving of the French nation? All these images are deconstructed by the latest issue of the Agone magazine.
Public perception of immigration and media discourse
The development of migration policies depends more and more on public opinion, itself often influenced by beliefs and media exposure. A calm debate on these policies requires objective and in-depth media treatment of the economic and social issues linked to immigration.
strange and familiar. words of Michel Agier, The stranger who comes. Rethinking hospitalityThreshold
The “migrant crisis” has rekindled a desire to welcome among many citizens. If these initiatives alone cannot constitute a response to the challenges posed by migration, the anthropologist M.Agier seeks to draw from them the principles of a hospitality policy that meets the challenges.
The power of the foreigner. About: G. Le Blanc, Inside Outside. The foreign conditionThreshold
The foreigner, according to G. The White, is first and foremost the one who is called such and who is thereby condemned to be nothing more than a lack, the one who lives in rupture with regard to national norms – forgetting that the foreigner has the remarkable power to disseminate difference.