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Offers an interdisciplinary study of recent political events (the refugees’ crisis in the West, the laws regarding the veil, terrorist threats and Islamic radicalization among others) in the light of multicultural practices
Welcomes a wide range of approaches and methodologies specific to contributors' disciplines in political science, literature, modern language, cultural studies, religion, etc.
Provides an extensive overview of political, cultural and artistic representations of the interrogations on citizenship and belonging in France and North America over the last twenty years
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Citizenship and Integration: Espousing or Combating Official Political Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity
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How Can One Be Muslim, Immigrant and French? Literary and Cinematic Expressions of Belonging in France and Québec
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Framing Identity and Nationality: Crimmigration, Islamophobia and the Politics of Ethnic Exclusion
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About this book
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.
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Editors and Affiliations
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Modern Languages Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, USA
Ramona Mielusel
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Department of Languages and Literatures, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada
Simona Emilia Pruteanu
About the editors
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
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America
Book Subtitle: Multicultural Perspectives on Political, Cultural and Artistic Representations of Immigration
Editors: Ramona Mielusel, Simona Emilia Pruteanu
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30158-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30157-6Published: 10 January 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-30160-6Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-30158-3Published: 09 January 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 260
Topics: Cultural Policy and Politics, Citizenship, Migration, French Politics, European Politics