You have reached a selective and partially-annotated Bibliography / Resource List, hopefully of
use to anyone interested in Immigration and France, French politics, France, political extremism, and
perhaps even the organization of any information in a "digital" age.
The comments of Jean-Marie Le Pen, of the Front National, on the recent rioting in France: [tr. JK][excerpts] --
"The Crisis of the Suburbs as viewed by Le Pen" TF1, November 13, 2005
"Jean-Marie Le Pen asserts that the 'riots' are a 'grave incident', but that 'they are not the central point', even
if they are 'very spectacular'. 'All this stems from the problem of massive and uncontrolled immigration, coming from
the Third World. We've known that this is a global atomic bomb. I've warned the French,' he declared... he expressed his
agreement with the decision of the minister of the Interior Nicolas Sarkozy to expel foreigners found to have
participated in the violence...
"Suggesting that the situation reveals 'a disequilibrium which can spill over into civil war', the president of the
Front National vehemently singles out the head of state, emphasizing that these suburban youths who 'will become
terrorists and bandits' are 'the children of Chirac'. He described the president of the Republic as 'the principal
person responsible for the decadence of our nation'...
"'If [Sarkozy] succeeds, bravo, but I don't think he will', Le Pen said. 'The fact that some Front National voters
find Sarkozy interesting will not prevent them from voting for me', for, 'the original is worth more than the copy'...
Le Pen was sarcastic about the president of the MPF, Philippe de Villiers, who 'in a pretty comical manner simply apes
my own opinions... they call him Duplicator', Le Pen said."
Well, if "immigration" is to be an issue, in the resolution of this latest crisis of the French state and society --
some news reports are saying that the number of immigrants among recent rioters is 6% (TF1, JT 20 Heures, November 13,
2005)... -- then a bibliography of works on that ticklish subject might come in handy. The following list is meant to be
very selective, and somewhat controversial: the views of writers such as Saskia Sassen do not always correspond to those
of the official French state, or of the extreme Left or extreme Right or Nationalists or ambitious politicians or the
many others who now will join this maelstrom of opinions and positions and policies.
The topic spans a number of different traditional subject areas, including immigration studies but also refugees,
urbanization, regional development, international law, political science, economics -- and now, increasingly,
international trade -- and, like everything else it seems, Globalization. The problem for France, like the problem for
so many others, seems to be how to accommodate the "foreigners" and "guest workers", socially and culturally and
politically and legally, in what rapidly is becoming an economically trans-national and even denationalized world? How
to deal with one another, in offshoring and outsourcing as well as outright immigration, if Globalized goods and
services are something we all want and need? Or do we want the goods and services without dealing with the people who
produce them... a matter of having our cake and eating it too...
Here's hoping that some consensus will emerge, which is humanitarian and life-affirming as well as effective. Clearly
France needs this more than it needs rhetoric, now. Some study of those who have given thought to the problem before
would be a good prelude to the angry words which now are flying in public debate.
Some resources on "France and Immigration", then:
* Ideas: Saskia Sassen and the "labor mobility" demands of Globalization
Sassen, Saskia, Globalization and its discontents : essays on the new mobility of people and money
(New York : The New Press, c1999) [with a foreword by K. Anthony Appiah] ISBN 978-1-56584-518-3.
Sassen, Saskia, Migranti, coloni, rifugiati : dall'emigrazione di massa alla fortezza Europa
(Milano : Feltrinelli, 1999) ISBN 88-07-10274-9.
Sassen, Saskia, The mobility of labor and capital : a study in international investment and labor
flow (Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1994, c1988) ISBN 0-521-38672-1, 9780521386722.
Ville et emploi : le territoire au coeur des nouvelles formes de travail (La Tour-d'Aigues : Éd. de
l'Aube, 2000) [publ. par le Programme Ville et emploi] ; coordonné par Évelyne Perrin et Nicole Rousier ; préf. de Jean
Rémy ; postf. de Saskia Sassen; ISBN 2-87678-546-3.
Sassen, Saskia, The global city : New York, London, Tokyo (Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university
press, c2001) 2d ed. ISBN 0691070636, 978-0691070636.
Sassen, Saskia, La ville globale : New York, Londres, Tokyo (Paris : Descartes & Cie, 1996) trad. de
l'américain par Denis-Armand Canal ; préf. de Sophie Body-Gendrot; ISBN 2-910301-45-1.
Currently featuring the following headline... in bright red in the original, too...:
"Immigration, explosion des banlieues... LE PEN l'avait dit !"
"Immigration, explosion of the suburbs... Le Pen told us so!"
-- then a video-game-style clip from the anti - 1999 European Constitution campaign, showing Paris burning and
deserted with flowers dying in the streets, and suddenly a red-white-blue comet descends from the sky emitting a
cleansing light which purifies and rejuvenates everything in Paris, then everything in France, then Stonehenge... then
everything in Europe... all to the tune of Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture"... cannons booming, cymbals crashing... you
have to see this...
-- and the signoff is, "Adherez au Front National" / "Join the Front National".
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, Les Français d'abord ([Paris] : Carrère-Lafon, 1984) ISBN 2-86804-011-X.
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, Pour la France : programme du Front national (Paris : Albatros, 1985).
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, Les frontières ou le chomage : 26 mai 1994 (Paris : SERP [éd.] ; Paris : SERP
[distrib.], 1994) 1 cass. vidéo : coul., SECAM ; 1/2 pouce VHS.
Bresson, Gilles, and Christian Lionet, Le Pen : biographie (Paris : Ed. du Seuil, 1994) ISBN
2-02-014063-2.
Warin, Olivier, Le Pen de A à Z (Paris : A. Michel, 1995) ISBN 2-226-07665-4.
Le Pen, Jean-Marie, and Franz Schönhuber, Le Pen - Der Rebell. Der Front National - Modell für
Deutschland (Stegen am Ammersee : Druffel & Vowinckel, 1997) von Jean M LePen, Vorwort ; ISBN: 3861180693.
Schönhuber, Franz, Le Pen, l'indomptable : un combat pour l'Europe des patries (Ploufragan : les
Presses bretonnes, 1998) tr. of Le Pen der Rebell ; ISBN 2-85615-040-3.
Le Canard enchaîné (Périodique), Le Pen, le vrai (Paris : "Le canard enchaîné", 1992) [dir. Erik
Emptaz] ; series, Les dossiers du "Canard", no. 45 ; ISSN 0292-5354.
Souchard, Maryse, and Stéphane Wahnich, Isabelle Cuminal, Virginie Wathier, Le Pen, les mots : analyse
d'un discours d'extrême-droite (Paris : la Découverte, 1998) ISBN 2-7071-2911-9.
Guland, Olivier, Le Pen, Mégret et les Juifs : l'obsession du complot mondialiste (Paris : Éd. la
Découverte, 2000) ISBN 2-7071-3061-3.
Le Pen (Paris : Éd. Objectif France, 2001) [éd. par Yann Maréchal et
Nicolas Gauthier] ISBN 2-913744-06-0.
-- and for a more complete bibliography / resource list on Jean-Marie Le Pen and the FN see,
* Ideas: Philippe de Villiers and his Mouvement Pour La France
"Reactions to the speech of Jacques Chirac": [tr. JK][excerpt] --
TF1, November 14, 2005
"Philippe de Villiers, president of the Mouvement Pour la France : Chirac 'persists in error'
"Philippe de Villiers said Monday that 'Jacques Chirac, who is responsible for the massive immigration which now is
drowning France, persists in error. Jacques Chirac today has become the head of the immigrants' party, more than he is
of a nation which does not want to die'. According to the president of the MPF, the chief of state 'prefers being the
spokesperson for the kids of the suburbs rather than for the French people who are suffering..."
Mouvement pour la France, Pour la France : journal trimestriel (Paris : Mouvement pour la France,
1995-) dir. publ. Philippe de Villiers ; co-dir. Jean Mady; N° 1 (1995, oct.-déc.); ISSN 1268-2950.
* Selected / interesting resources from recent public policy debates about "Immigration & France"
Penn, Roger D., and Paul S. Lambert, Children of International Migrants in Europe: Britain, France and
Germany Compared, Hardcover: 256 pages (London : Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming May 13, 2008) ISBN 0230018793,
978-0230018792.
Kneebone, Susan, and Felicity Rawlings-Sanei, eds., New Regionalism and Asylum Seekers: Challenges Ahead
, Hardcover: 243 pages (New York : Berghahn Books, 2007) Series: Studies in Forced Migration, ISBN 1845453441,
978-1845453442.
Pécoud, Antoine, and Paul De Guchteneire, eds., Migration Without Borders: Essays on the Free Movement of
People, Hardcover: 294 pages (New York : Berghahn Books, 2007) ISBN 1845453468, 978-1845453466.
Goodale, Mark, and Sally Engle Merry, eds., The Practice of Human Rights: Tracking Law Between the Global
and the Local Hardcover: 396 pages (Cambridge [UK] : Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 0521865174,
978-0521865173.
Contributors: Mark Goodale, Sally Engle Merry, Daniel Goldstein, Lauren Leve, Laura Nader, Mark Goodale, Shannon
Speed, Jean Jackson, Kay Warren, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, John Dale, Sari Wastell, Richard Ashby Wilson.
Lewis, Mary Dewhurst, The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in
France, 1918-1940, Paperback: 384 pages (Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2007) ISBN 0804757224,
978-0804757225.
Messina, Anthony M., The Logics and Politics of Post-WWII Migration to Western Europe, Hardcover: 304
pages (Cambridge [UK] : Cambridge University Press, 2007) ISBN 0521821347, 978-0521821346.
Begag, Azouz, Ethnicity and Equality: France in the Balance, Paperback: 154 pages
(Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press / Bison Books, c2007) tr. Alec G. Hargreaves, ISBN 0803262620, 978-0803262621.
Winders, James A., Paris Africain: Rhythms of the African Diaspora,
Paperback: 248 pages (London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006) ISBN 1403960046, 978-1403960047
Grillo, R.D., Ideologies and Institutions in Urban France: The Representation of Immigrants
,
Paperback: 344 pages
(Cambridge [UK], Cambridge University Press, 2006) ISBN 052102823X, 978-0521028233
Bowen, John R., Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space
,
Hardcover: 328 pages
(Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006) ISBN 0691125066, 978-0691125060
Kelman, Gaston, Je suis noir et je n'aime pas le manioc
,
(Paris : Max Milo, 2004) Series Mad; ISBN 2914388543 ; (Paris : 10 X 18, 2005) Series Fait et cause; ISBN 2264041080.
Weil, Patrick, La France et ses étrangers : L'aventure d'une politique de l'immigration de 1938 à nos
jours (Paris, Editions Gallimard, 2005) ISBN 2070411958.
Weil, Patrick, La république et sa diversité : Immigration, intégration, discrimination (Paris :
Seuil, 2005) ISBN 2020693771.
France. Premier ministre, Mission de préfiguration du centre de ressources et de mémoire de
l'immigration (Paris : la Documentation française, 2004) ; [Multimédia multisupport] 1 livre (254 p.) 1 disque
optique numérique (CD-ROM) ; Configuration requise PC, 32 Mo de mémoire vive, Windows 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 60 Mo
d'espace disque dur disponible, Internet Explorer 5.01 ; rapport au Premier ministre ; [réd. par] Jacques Toubon ;
[préf. de] Jean-Pierre Raffarin ; ISBN 2-11-005709-2.
France, Maîtrise de l'immigration (Paris : Direction des journaux officiels, 2004) ISBN
2-11-075762-0.
Freedman, Jane, Immigration and security in France (Aldershot : Ashgate, c2004) ISBN
0-7546-3583-X.
Tandonnet, Maxime, Le défi de l'immigration : la vérité, les solutions (Paris : F.-X. de Guibert,
2004) ISBN 2-86839-975-4.
Fysh, Peter, and Jim Wolfreys, The politics of racism in France (Basingstoke : Palgrave
Macmillan, 2003) 2nd edition ; ISBN 1-4039-0515-0.
Le Moigne, Guy, and André Lebon, L'Immigration en France (Paris : Presses Universitaires de
France, 2002) Series : Que sais-je ? ; ISBN 2130527701.
Tévanian, Pierre, Le racisme républicain : réflexions sur le modèle français de discrimination
(Paris : l'Esprit frappeur, 2002) ISBN 2-84405-181-2.
Alaux, Jean-Pierre, and Julien Bach, Yves Benot... [et al.], Égalité sans frontière : les immigrés ne sont
pas une marchandise (Paris : Éd. Syllepse, Fondation Copernic, 2001) ISBN 2-913165-58-3.
Favell, Adrian, Philosophies of Integration: Immigration and the Idea of Citizenship in France and
Britain (London : Palgrave MacMillan, 2001) 2nd édition; ISBN 033394593X.
Vaillant, Emmanuel, L'immigration ([Toulouse] : Milan, 2001, c1996) ISBN 2-7459-0331-4.
Benaïssa, Née en France. Histoire d'une jeune beur (Paris : Pocket, 2000) ISBN 2266106244.
Le Bras, Hervé, Le sol et le sang : théories de l'invasion au XXe siècle (La Tour d'Aigues : Éd.
de l'Aube, 1999) ISBN 2-87678-470-X.
Gourévitch, Jean-Paul, Immigration : la fracture légale : essai (Paris : le Pré aux clercs, 1998)
ISBN 2-84228-040-7.
Brubaker, Rogers, Citoyenneté et nationalité en France et en Allemagne (Paris : Belin, 1997) tr.
of : Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany ; tr. de l'américain par Jean-Pierre Bardos; ISBN
2-7011-1986-3.
Bertrand, Jean-Marie, and François Aballéa, Elisabeth Zucker... [et al.], Insertion, intégration :
concepts et pratiques (Paris : la Documentation française : Ministère de l'emploi et de la solidarité, 1997) 291
p.; French text with summaries in French and in English; bibliographies; series: "Revue française des affaires
sociales", 2, 1997, avril-juin; ISSN 0035-2985.
Hargreaves, Alec Gordon, Immigration, "race" and ethnicity in contemporary France (London ; New
York : Routledge, 1995) ISBN 0-415-11816-6.
Cesari, Jocelyne, Etre musulman en France : associations, militants et mosquées (Paris : Karthala
; Aix-en-Province : IREMAM, 1994) ISBN 2-86537-501-3.
Khamès, Djamel, and Françoise Paoletti, En France quelle immigration ? (Paris : Hatier, 1993) ISBN
2-218-07439-7.
Lapeyronnie, Didier, L'individu et les minorités : la France et la Grande-Bretagne face à leurs
immigrés (Paris : Presses universitaires de France, 1993) ISBN 2-13-045738-X.
Naïr, Sami, Le regard des vainqueurs : les enjeux français de l'immigration (Paris : B. Grasset,
1992) ISBN 2-246-43101-8.
Barreau, Jean-Claude, De l'immigration en général et de la nation française en particulier
([Paris] : le Pré aux Clercs, 1992) ISBN 2-7144-2928-9.
Brubaker, Rogers, Citizenship and nationhood in France and Germany (Cambridge (Mass.) : Harvard
university press, 1992) ISBN 0-674-13177-0.
--oOo--
Note: This resource list is designed with the casual reader or beginning student in mind, or with librarians
catching-up, and therefore it is very incomplete. It also concerns a very timely topic, therefore incomplete again...
and a controversial one, and so it is incomplete again... and an enormous one... and a multilingual one...
So, any suggestions of additions to the lists above will be gratefully received via email to kessler@well.com.
Not deletions, though: all of the above are useful to and ought to be interesting to anyone involved in the
"immigration" subject, whatever the opinions expressed might be.
And no diatribes, please: these are highly emotive issues now, I know, and opinions on all of it are bound to be firm
well-beyond-reason. But no attempt is being made here to resolve any of this, simply to offer information resources for
dialog and discussion among those of us who face these questions: particularly to students, who will be forced to face
them in the future, doubtless in exacerbated form, if current efforts fail, as recently they have been doing so
significantly. These are old and thorny problems, anyway, which plague all nations, and you & I can't solve them in an
email exchange.
I do not share, however, the pessimism or sense of finality of for example Alain Duhamel, who declared that recent
events in France constitute, "Le bûcher de l'intégration à la française" (in Libération, November 9 2000)
--
-- I prefer to think that things are not getting worse, or better, or are standing still, but that they simply are
changing, and that we see "through a glass darkly", at best, the direction they will take. Saskia Sassen, I personally
believe, for now has the best handle on the direction of this change: her vision is not an entirely optimistic one, but
it contains at least more well-informed realism than does the political rhetoric which surrounds these issues too often
now.
