African Immigrant Families in Another France.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Part I African Immigrants and France -- Introduction to Part I -- 1 Introduction - " Another France" -- Plan of book -- 2 Why Study Sub-Saharan African Immigrants in France? -- Imperative of this research -- Policy responses to integration issues -- A need for African women's and youths' perspectives on integration -- Increasing numbers of Sub-Saharan African immigrants in France -- Individuals and methods of this study -- Plan of analysis -- 3 A Post-Colonial Bouillabaisse : Africans in France - Context and Theory -- A post-colonial bouillabaisse with Africans -- (Under)counting Sub-Saharan Africans in France -- Identity, citizenship, and an ostrich policy for Sub-Saharan Africans -- Trouble in the 'burbs -- Phantom fathers, single mothers, and the French social safety net -- Practical and theoretical approaches to integration -- "Assimilation" and "racialization," and segmented assimilation -- Cultural-materialist framework -- Part II Structural and Cultural Considerations -- Introduction to Part II -- 4 Social Structures Shaping Immigrant Integration - "The Power of Skin" -- Blocked by state bureaucracy -- Immigrant policies over the past two decades -- Interaction with the state - equal protections in law and practice -- The state, formalities, and finding an apartment -- Limited by labor-market opportunities -- The night shift hampers family functioning -- "Colorism" translates into obstructed labor-market opportunity -- Race status and the conveyance of immigrant status -- Racism in work, school, and play -- Being black in France -- Contesting structural inequality -- Summary - structurally and socially dislocated -- 5 Cultural Differences, Asserting Oneself, and Religion - "Take Your Place" -- Comprehending cultural differences.

How can you protect your children from the individualism here? -- The individual and individualism before family -- Parenting differences, protecting children, and identity formation -- Comprehending cultural difference and identity formation -- Negotiating one's place in France -- Asserting oneself or "take your place" -- Negotiating a morally superior position and/or identity -- Religion as culture and structure -- Religion as a normative force -- La laïcité in the law and practice -- Relational problems - "churches were closed" or "they did not write the Koran well" -- Religion as a cultural resource -- 6 Identity and Integration of Youth - "French on the Inside" -- Identity - "French on the inside, African on the out" -- Religion - "children need church" -- The intersection of race and immigrant statuses - "we are different ... not French" -- Education - "there were no blacks in my class after the bac " -- Economic opportunity - "race marks immigrants ... they will not offer you a position" -- Integration, discrimination, and "outsider" status -- Identity formation - the making of the Clichy-sous-Bois riots -- Culture of non-acceptance -- Structurally hampered -- Youth identity - "we have to take our place" -- Mothers on Clichy-sous-Bois - " c'est la goutte d'eau qui fait déborder le vase " -- Summary - exclusion, isolation, and the stigma of an immigrant "other" status -- Part III Theorizing Integration and Conclusions -- Introduction to Part III -- 7 Conclusions - Inequality, (Dis)location, and Sub-Saharan African Inclusion -- Addressing the research questions -- What structural and cultural markers characterize the integration experience? -- What characterizes integration for youth across first and second generations in France? -- Liberty, equality, and fraternity -- The problem - universalism, la laïcité , and an ostrich policy.

Implications and directions -- Inequality, (dis)location, and the African immigrant -- Appendix A: Mother Interview Profiles - Immigrant Mothers -- Appendix B: Youth Interview Profiles - First- and Second-Generation Sub-Saharan African Youth -- Appendix C: French Glossary of Terminology -- Notes -- References -- Index.

Immigrant incorporation is a critical challenge for France and other European societies today. Black Africans migrants are racialized and endowed with an immigrant status, which carries low status and is durable into the second generation. This book elucidates the conflict and issues pertinent to social integration.

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