Dual Identity in the Context of North African Assimilation in France - 268541325.pdf

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• Since the 1970s, however, the majority of France’s immigrants have been North Africans from the Maghreb

• tension first began to arise between Muslims and the native French.

• As a part of the French colonial empire, North Africans have been immigrating to France since before World War I

• manual labor jobs that most French citizens did not want,

• poke French fluently

• petroleum crisis broke in 1973,

• ailure of the Republican integration model.

• he 1970s was the end of France’s economic boom, and the beginning of the visibility of France’s immigrants.

• assimilation has partially failed because of the dual sense of identity that has emerged from these immigrant

• slam, and the legacy of France’s colonial past all play a role in determining immigrants’ identities as well as influencing the attitude of the “native” French

• Racism

• Muslims not only retains its ethnic identity, but nurtures it as a means of defense towards hostile native French citizens.

• The native French have shown that they are not comfortable with Muslims in their society, and this encourages Muslims to romanticize their origins, while maintaining their French identities

• racist and islamophobic tendencies

• Lasting evidence of the colonial legacy

• assimilation

• civic nationalism, but ignores the reality of its ethnic conten

• Laïcité

• France’s cultural identity includes the French language, culture/patrimony, and laïcité

• Islam is at the core of a Muslim’s identity