Weil How to Be French

Nationality in the Making since 1789
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8947-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 452 Seiten

Broadly comparative history of French nationality, from the French Revolution to the present, tying the politics of nationality to those of demography, colonial history, immigration, and conscription.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weil, Patrick

Weitere Mitwirkende

Porter, Catherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Staats- und Verfassungsrecht Staatsangehörigkeitsrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acronyms and Abbreviations vii

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Part One. The Construction of Modern Nationality Law in France

1. From the Old Regime to the Civil Code: The Two Revolutions in French Nationality 11

2. The Triumph of Jus Soli (1803-1889) 30

3. Naturalization Comes to the Aid of the Nation (1889-1940) 54

Part Two. Ethnic Crises in French Nationality

4. Vichy: A Racist and Anti-Semitic Nationality Policy 87

5. The Difficult Reestablishment of Republican Legislation 125

6. The Algerian Crisis in French Nationality 152

Conclusion to Parts One and Two 168

Part Three. Nationality in Comparison and In Practice

7. Jus Soli versus Jus Sanguinis: The False Opposition between French and German Law 173

8. Discrimination within Nationality Law 194

9. How Does One Become or Remain French? French Nationality in Practice 228

Conclusion 250

Glossary 255

Notes 263

Maps and Documents 375

Bibliography 409

Index 427

Über Autor(innen)

Patrick Weil is Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris, Sorbonne) and a professor at the Paris School of Economics. The author of many books, he was a member of France’s Governmental Advisory Council on Integration from 1996 to 2002, and a member of the Presidential Commission created by President Jacques Chirac on the “implementation of the principle of secularism within the French Republic” in 2003. In 1997, following a request from Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he produced two influential reports on nationality and immigration legislation. Under its original title, Qu’est-ce qu-un Français, How to Be French won the François Furet prize.Catherine Porter, Professor Emeritus in the Foreign Languages Department at the State University of New York, Cortland, won the Chevalier d’Or des Palmes Académiques for advancing Franco-American relations through translation and teaching.