Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration

ISBN-13: 9783030301576 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 260 str.

Ramona Mielusel; Simona Emilia Pruteanu

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Realities of Multicultural Societies

Ramona Mielusel and Simona Pruteanu

 

Part I - Citizenship and Integration: Espousing or Combating Official Political Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity

  

Chapter 2: Nationalistic Secularism and the Critique of Canadian Multiculturalism in Quebec

David Koussens

Chapter 3: Francophones, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Canada, Québec and Europe

Patrick Imbert

 

Chapter 4: The Regulation of Migration, Integration, and Multiculturalism in 21st century France

Michael Samers

 

Chapter 5: Representing French Citizenship and Belonging in La Desintégration (2011) by Philippe Faucon

Ramona Mielusel

 

Part II - How Can One Be Muslim, Immigrant and French? Literary and Cinematic Expressions of Belonging in France and Québec

 

Chapter 6: Redefining Frenchness: Thomté Ryam’s Banlieue Noire and En attendant que le bus explose

Rebecca Blanchard

 

Chapter 7: The Integration of Muslim Maghrebis into Quebec: France as the Model not to Follow

Typhaine Leservot

 

Chapter 8: Feminist Citizenship in the Banlieue: Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016)

Michela Ardizzoni

 

Chapter 9: “Let me explain: This is who I am”: Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by   Dervila Cooke

Dervila Cooke

 

Part III - Framing identity and nationality: Crimmigration, Islamophobia and the Politics  of Ethnic Exclusion·

Chapter 10: Shy Elitism:  A New Keyword in Critical Multiculturalism Studies

Daniel McNeil

 

Chapter 11: On the Islamophobic Mind and its Agenda in France

Abderrahman Beggar 

Chapter 12: Framing the Immigration Discourse and Drawing the Citizen: Concrete Representations of the “Migration Crisis” in Comics Journalism

Simona Emilia Pruteanu

Chapter 13: Navigating Diversity: Multiculturalism as a Heuristic

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Ramona Mielusel is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

Simona Emilia Pruteanu is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

Blurb

The first decades of the new millennium have been marked by major political changes. Although The West has wished to revisit internal and international politics concerning migration policies, refugee status, integration, secularism, and the dismantling of communitarianism, events like the Syrian refugee crisis, the terrorist attacks in France in 2015-2016, and the economic crisis of 2008 have resurrected concepts such as national identity, integration, citizenship and re-shaping state policies in many developed countries. In France and Canada, more recent public elections have brought complex democratic political figures like Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau to the public eye. Both leaders were elected based on their promising political agendas that aimed at bringing their countries into the new millennium; Trudeau promotes multiculturalism, while Macron touts the diverse nation and the inclusion of diverse ethnic communities to the national model. This edited collection aims to establish a dialogue between these two countries and across disciplines in search of such discursive illustrations and opposing discourses. Analyzing the cultural and political tensions between minority groups and the state in light of political events that question ideas of citizenship and belonging to a multicultural nation, the chapters in this volume serve as a testimonial to the multiple views on the political and public perception of multicultural practices and their national and international applicability to our current geopolitical context.