| Titre | L'identité française et ses ennemis : Le traitement de l'immigration dans le National-racisme français contemporain | |
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| Auteur | Pierre-André Taguieff | |
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Revue | L'Homme et la société |
| Numéro | no 77-78, 3e et 4e trimestre 1985 Racisme, antiracisme, étranges, étrangers | |
| Page | 167-200 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Recent nationalist declarations elevate « immigration of non-European origin » into a « Question » or « problem » set in the sphere of the catastrophic (imminence of irreversible destruction). The treatment of the immigration- problem takes on a cultural legitimacy by ostensibly resorting to a demystifying-criticism style (denouncing the last « taboos ») and by a strategy of retaliation (private appropriation, misappropriation, reversal) as regards the « panegyric of the difference ».
Some basic mechanism of the racialising arguments aimed at the stereotype immigrant are revealed in recent writings. We show how the explicit position of the « republican style » alternative « assimilation or return to country of origin » acts as a double constraint as regards the immigrants, when the postulate of inassimilability intervenes. The absolutism of difference is one principle of the dominant form of racialisation : the differentialist ideology is elaborated on the basis of a fear of mixing of the races. Finally, contemporary national racism is often presented in the guise of « direct democracy » a consensus tends to form regarding the ideology of the consensus and referendum type practices such as the « Swiss model » reveal its xenophobic advantages. The result is a French road to the political from populist xenophobia — « national liberalism ». Given the onslaught of myths of identity it is a question of re-thinking internationalism outwith the sphere in which the rival ideological instrumentalisations are articulated ; the elaboration of a post-imperial universalism. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/homso_0018-4306_1985_num_77_1_2229 |
