Immigration and Insecurity in France
Series: Critical Security Series
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9780754635833
Subjects: Immigration & emigration; International relations; Social aspects; France; Social Science; Sociology; Social conditions; Emigration & Immigration; Emigration and immigration; Cultural assimilation; Immigrants; Social integration
First sentence: In 1983, following the French municipal elections which had been marked by the electoral breakthrough of the extreme-Right Front National, Etienne Balibar remarked that, 'to present those whose existence encompasses the maximum amount of insecurity, immigrant workers, as constituting the principal source of insecurity for France, is a paradox, if not provocation' (Balibar, 1992: 35).