MODULE R13109 IMMIGRATION & NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST-WAR FRANCE

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1 MODULE R13109 IMMIGRATION & NATIONAL IDENTITY IN POST-WAR FRANCE 2004/2005 (SEMESTER 2) 10 CREDITS CONVENOR: Dr JEREMY LANE SET TEXTS Philippe Bernard, Immigration: le défi mondial (Paris: Gallimard/Folio actuel, 2002). Dossier 1: Le Front national Dossier 2: Les Trois Affaires du Foulard (The two dossiers will be circulated to students in the course of the semester.) Film Fabrice Généstal, La Squale (2001) STRUCTURE OF COURSE The course will be divided between weekly sessions with the whole group and fortnightly seminars in smaller groups. The whole group will meet at 4 p.m. every Monday at a location to be arranged. The seminars will meet fortnightly at either 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. on Tuesdays in a room/s to be arranged. Precise details of seminar groups will be organised in the first week of teaching. ASSESSMENT This module will be assessed by: one coursework essay or commentary of approximately 2,000 words in length (50% of the final module mark), and one 90-minute exam in the Summer Exam period (50% of the final module mark). The deadline for the coursework essay is as follows: 12 noon on Friday 18th March MODULE OUTCOMES 1.Knowledge & understanding - An overview of different traditions in French nationalism and different conceptions of French national identity, as they developed from the C19th, particularly. (A4) - An understanding of the ways in which mass immigration to post-war France has challenged the notions of French national identity contained in political traditions ranging from the extreme right to the republican left. (A4) - Awareness of techniques of textual analysis appropriate to the study of both political discourse and the images and representations of immigration and national identity more generally.(a5) 2. Intellectual Skills - Development of reading and interpretative skills acquired and reinforced in Years 1 & 2. (B1) - Reading and interpretative skills appropriate to the study of political discourses. (B3) - Critical analysis of primary and secondary materials. (B2, B4, B5) - Understanding of complex ideas in their socio-historical context. (B3) - Ability to develop arguments in discussion and in writing. (B6, B7, B8) 3. Professional Skills - Reading and critical evaluation of sophisticated texts in French. (C1, C3) - Commentary and essay writing. (C3, C4, C6) - Independent work on primary and secondary sources. (C5) - Use of library resources. (C5) 4. Transferable skills - Oral and written communication skills. (D1) - Critical evaluation of texts. (D2) - Independent study. (D4) - Time organisation; meeting deadlines. (D7) - Production of word-processed course work. (D8) - Self-reliance, self-confidence. (D10)

2 TIMETABLE Whole Group Sessions: Wk 1 (w/c 31 st Jan) Introduction Wk 2 (w/c 7 th Feb) Post-war Immigration Policy in France, Wk 3 (w/c14th Feb) Post-war Immigration Policy in France, 1974 to date Wk 4 (w/c 21st Feb) The discourse of the Front national (1) Wk 5 (w/c 28 th Feb) The discourse of the Front national (2) Wk 6 (w/c 7th March) Les 3 affaires du foulard, 1989, 1994, 2003 (1) Wk 7 (w/c 14 th March) Les 3 affaires du foulard, 1989, 1994, 2003 (2) EASTER BREAK Wk 8 (w/c 18 th April) Filming the banlieue La Squale (1) Wk 9 (w/c 25 th April) Filming the banlieue La Squale (2) Wk 10 (w/c 9th May) Conclusions Seminars: Wk 2 Nationalism and French Republican Universalism Wk 4 Immigration policy in post-war France Wk 6 Le Pen s speech at La fête Jeanne d arc, 1999 Wk 8 The affaires du foulard multiculturalism vs. universalism? Wk 10 La Squale & stereotypes of the banlieue. Attendance is compulsory. Students should inform tutors in advance if they have to miss a class for bona fide reasons, and in such cases are responsible for finding out what work they have missed. Students should come to tutorials fully prepared, having completed all reading and tasks set in the previous class. N.B. In line with the University of Nottingham s policy to ensure good practice and the highest standards of teaching, the Department operates a scheme of Peer Review of all staff. From time to time you may note the presence of another member of staff in the classroom. The function of that person is only to observe your lecturer. The observer is in no way involved with the process of assessment of students. COURSEWORK ESSAYS (2,000 words approx.) YOU MUST ANSWER ONE OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS: 1) Discuss the contention that the numerous measures taken by successive French governments since 1974 to control immigration have either been flawed, contradictory, or fundamentally racist. 2) Account for the increasingly high political profile acquired by the politics of immigration in France since the 1980s. 3) Identify and analyse the constituent elements of the Front national s current political programme. To what extent do these various elements express a single coherent political ideology? 4) Write a critical commentary on one of Jean-Marie Le Pen s speeches. (copies of the speech with guidelines on writing a commentary will be circulated separately). Deadline for submission of essays: 12 noon on Friday 18th March EXAM FORMAT The exam will last 90 minutes during which time you will have to answer ONE question from a choice of four. There will be 2 questions on the affaire du foulard (one commentary question and one essay question), and two questions on La Squale and representations of the banlieue (both essay questions).

3 BIBLIOGRAPHY 1. Set Texts Philippe Bernard, Immigration: le défi mondial (Paris: Gallimard/Folio actuel, 2002). Film Fabrice Généstal, La Squale (2001) 2.1 General History of Post-war Immigration to France D.Assouline, Un siècle d'immigration en France (Paris: Syros, 1996). A.Begag & A.Chaouite, Ecarts d'identité (Paris: Seuil/Virgule, 1990). A.Hargreaves, Immigration, 'race', and ethnicity in contemporary France (London: Routledge, 1995). A.Hargreaves, ed., Immigration in post-war France: a documentary anthology (London: Routledge, 1987) A.Hargreaves and M.McKinney, eds., Post-colonial cultures in France (London: Routledge, 1997). G. Noiriel, Le Creuset français : histoire de l'immigration, XIXe-XXe siècles (Paris : Seuil, 1988). M.Silverman, Deconstructing the Nation: immigration, racism and citizenship in modern France (London: Routledge, 1992). P.Weil, La France et ses étrangers: l'aventure d'une politique de l'immigration (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1991). 2.2 French Nationalisms & the debate on multiculturalism E.Balibar and I.Wallerstein,Race, nation, class : ambiguous identities, trans. C.Turner (London : Verso 1991). R.Brubaker, Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge, Mass. & London : Harvard University Press, 1992). R.Girardet, Le nationalisme français (Paris: Editions du seuil, 1983). S.Hazareesingh, The Republican Tradition & The Two Faces of French Nationalism, in Political Traditions in Modern France (Oxford: OUP, 1994), pp & pp D.Howarth & G.Varouxakis, Citizenship, nationalism, and national identity, in Contemporary France: an introduction to contemporary French politics and society (London: Arnold, 2003), pp J.Jennings, Citizenship, republicanism and multiculturalism in contemporary France, British Journal of Political Science, 30, (2000), pp D.Schnapper, La Communauté des citoyens: sur l idée moderne de nation (Paris: Gallimard, 1994). M.Wieviorka et al., Une Société fragmentée?: le multiculturalisme en débat (Paris: La Découverte, 1997). M.Winock, Closed and Open Nationalisms, in Nationalism, anti-semitism, and fascism in France, trans. J-M.Todd (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998). 2.3 The Affaires du Foulard S.Dayan-Herzbrun, The Issue of the Islamic Headscarf, in Women, Immigration, and Identities in France, eds J.Freedman & C.Tarr (Oxford/New York: Berg, 2000), pp F.Dubet, La Laïcité dans les mutations de l école, in M.Wieviorka et al., Une Société fragmentée?: le multiculturalisme en débat (Paris: La Découverte, 1997), pp F.Gaspard & F.Khosrokhavar, Le Foulard et la république (Paris: La Découverte, 1995). F.Khosrokhavar, L universel abstrait, le politique et la construction de l islamisme comme forme d altérité, in M.Wieviorka et al., Une Société fragmentée? op. cit., pp D. Martucelli, Les Contradictions politiques du multiculturalisme in M.Wieviorka et al., Une Société fragmentée? op. cit., pp See also the dossiers in newsmagazines such as Le Nouvel Observateur mai 2003 & numerous articles in Le Monde from the time of all 3 affaires du foulard. 2.4 The Front national P.Davies, The National Front in France: ideology, discourse, and power (London: Routledge, 1999)., The Extreme Right in France, 1789 to the present: from De Maistre to Le Pen (London: Routledge, 2002). E.G.DeClair, Politics on the Fringe: the people, policies, and organization of the French National Front (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999). A.Rollat, Les Hommes de l extrême droite:, Le Pen, Marie, Ortiz et les autres (Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1985).

4 H.Simmons, The French National Front: the extremist challenge to democracy (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996). M.Souchard et al., Le Pen, les mots: analyse d un disours d extrême droite (Paris: La Découverte, 1997). Website It sticks in the gullet to log on to this site but it s full of useful documents, speeches, cartoons, and posters which all help us to understand the nature and appeal of Front national discourse The Banlieue in film & sociology A.Battegay & A.Boubeker, 'Des Minguettes à Vaulx-en-Velin: fractures sociales et discours publics', Temps modernes, (déc 1991-jan 1992), pp A.Begag, La Ville des autres: la famille immigrée et l'espace urbain (Lyon: PUL, 1991). A.Begag & C.Delourme, Quartiers sensibles (Paris: Seuil/Virgule, 1994). A.Begag & R.Rossini, Du bon usage de la distance chez les sauvageons (Paris: Seuil/Virgule, 1999). S.Body Gendrot, 'Migration and the Racialisation of the Postmodern City in France', in M.Cross & M.Keith, eds., Racism, the City and the State (London, Routledge, 1993), pp P.Champagne, 'La Vision médiatique', in P.Bourdieu, ed., La Misère du monde (Paris: Seuil, 1993), pp F.Dubet & D.Lapeyronnie, Les quartiers d'exil (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1992). D.Lepoutre. Cœur de banlieue : codes, rites et langages (Paris: Odile Jacob, 1997). O.Mongin, 'Regarde-les tomber: à propos de La Haine', Esprit (Aug-Sept 1995). K.Reader, 'After the riot', Sight and Sound, 5, 11, (1995), pp J.Rey, 'Vaulx-en-Velin: histoire passionnante et chaotique d'une politique urbaine périphérique', Temps modernes, (déc 1991-jan 1992), pp M.Rosello, Marie-Line de Mehdi Charef, Esprit créateur, 42 (1), Spring (2002), pp S.Sharma & A.Sharma, '"So Far So Good ": La Haine and the Poetics of the Everyday', Theory, Culture & Society, 17, 3, (June 2000), pp C.Tarr, 'Questions of Identity in Beur Cinema: from Tea in the Harem to Cheb', Screen, 34, 4, (Winter 1993), pp , 'Beurz'n the Hood: the articulation of Beur and French identities in Le Thé au harem d'archi Ahmed and Hexagone', Modern & Contemporary France, 3,4, (1995), pp , 'French Cinema and Post-colonial Minorities', in A.Hargreaves and M.McKinney, eds., Postcolonial cultures in France (London: Routledge, 1997), pp , Rebelles in the banlieue: La Squale and Samia, Modern and Contemporary France, 9 (4), (November 2001), pp , Grrrls in the banlieue, Esprit créateur, 42 (3), Fall (2002), pp H.Vieillard-Baron, 3e Partie: Des Banlieues aux Quartiers sensibles, in Les banlieues: des singularités françaises aux réalités mondiales (Paris: Hachette, 2001). G.Vincendeau, 'Designs on the banlieue; Michel Kassovitz's La Haine (1995)' in S.Hayward & G.Vincendeau eds., French Film: texts and contexts, 2nd edition, (London: Routledge, 2000).

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