Two years after the controversial creation of the Ministry of Immigration and National Identity, the government has launched a debate to try to define this last notion. Such instrumentalization, heavy with dangers, can be thwarted by the analysis tools available to the social sciences. For this purpose, The life of ideas has gathered several texts ; They show everything that the “ national identity “Has built and, to a large extent, dummy.
– “” Talk about other languages than that of science »»
by Nicolas Delalande & Ivan Jablonka, 08/01/2008
At a time when immigration and national identity are officially associated as stakeholders of a problem, the historian Gérard Noiriel returns for Laviedesidees.fr on the scientific and political issues that these concepts cover. Interview.
– L'” national identity »: A false problem, by Evelyne Grossman, 08/01/2008
A few months after the creation of a “ Ministry of Immigration and National Identity », A first in the history of the Republic, the historian Gérard Noiriel deciphers the political uses of the concept of national identity since the XIXe century to the 2007 presidential campaign.
– Of the nation France and democracy, by Ismaïl Ferhat, 09/19/2008
Criticizing the “ neo-nationalism », Performed with barresism, from Nicolas Sarkozy, the historian Vincent Duclert has gathered a set of texts to show that, if France has a” identify “, This is deeply democratic, based on ideals that go back to lights and antiquity.
– How to feel European ?, by Céline Spector, 12/29/2007
If we can today still feel linked to our homeland, it is clear that we can hardly manage to feel Europeans: the enthusiasm of peoples for an above all economic Europe is low. How to build a European identity ? Constitutional patriotism, according to Jan-Werner Müller, is the only possible answer to this question.
– How we identify foreigners, by Quentin Deluermoz, 11/03/2008
The problem is not to decipher the “ identify », Cultural or social, foreigners. The real question, for the historian Gérard Noiriel, consists in highlighting the processes which made it possible to identify them over time, using “ papers Or other techniques. In a stimulant collection of articles, which brings together specialists from all periods and all countries, he studies the genesis of increasingly effective distance control.
– Ministry of Immigration, year IIby Claire Marynower, 06/21/2010
In what sense, French immigration policy known as “ chosen »She influented in the past year ? The collective This France deciphers the language of the ministry in the Besson era, and puts recent developments in their European context: that of a generalized alignment on the least hospital rules of hospitality.