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THE MAKING OF A JUDICIAL COLLECTIVE. THE MOBILIZATION OF MOROCCAN RAILWAY WORKERS AGAINST DISCRIMINATION AT THE SNCF (FRANCE)The article deals with the mobilization of Moroccan railway workers. The French national train company hired them as contract workers in the 1970s. They achieved to sentence the company for discrimination. The ethnography of the judicial process explores the relationships between mobilization and legal action and their effects on the formation of a collective. The conditions of a long-term action (which was exceptional because of the number of complainants) and of its judicial translation, show that judicialization participated in the constitution of this group. This process reveals a tension between conscientization of complainants and dispossession by legal professionals.

“BE CONSISTENT, YOUNG MAN!“ SPOKEN AND UNSPOKEN ISSUES OF MINORITY ASSESSMENT AMONG YOUNG FOREIGNERS LIVING ALONE IN PARISIn Paris, the isolated young foreigners are facing an administrative evaluation of their situation, which seeks to determine if they are or not minors, and therefore, potentially protected. Several hundred files of young people were studied, and some in-depth interviews were realized. Our study highlights the categorization of these young people as “minors“ or “majors“, linked to their physical appearance and the coherence of their narrative. This shows the influence of gender, race, class and age in these administrative decisions. Such categorizations are intended to distinguish between legitimate applicants (the “real“ minors) and illegitimate applicants (young foreigners).

FROM THE POLITICAL REGULATION OF THE WORLDS OF THE WELFARE STATE TO THAT OF PROFESSIONAL WORLDS. THE CASE OF CARE AND DOMESTIC SERVICES IN FRANCE AND GERMANYThis article analyzes the indirect links between social policies and the political regulation of jobs, taking the case of care and domestic services jobs in France and Germany. It shows that welfare states can create resources and constraints for the political regulation of jobs: while three professional worlds were identifiable in the late 1970s in both countries, debates about care and domestic services were differently developed, leading to the choice of different instruments and to a change in the type of professional worlds associated with the jobs. Welfare states participate to the transformations of professional worlds.

WHEN BUSINESS ACTORS ARE POLITICAL. LEGACIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF TERRITORIAL MOBILIZATIONS OF BUSINESS INTEREST GROUPS: THE CASE OF MILAN REGIONFrom the case study of Milan urban region, the article focuses on the forms and capacity of business actors to participate to territorial public action in the long run. Relying on the corporatist approach, it shows that the relations between business organizations and local public actors vary over time in reaction to both institutional and economic changes. Despite this, the most organized business actors have been able to renew their influence over time. The analysis complements researches on the territorialisation of economic interest groups in Europe, by factoring in structural variables and power dynamics.

THE IDENTITARIAN MOVEMENT AND THE MEDIA. PROTEST STRATEGIES, NEWSWORTHINESS, AND VISIBILITY IN THE PRESSThe article examines the interplay between internal supply-side factors and media coverage of Bloc Identitaire (2003-2015), advancing four complementary logics for the visibility of grassroots far right mobilization: issue ownership, repertoire of action, controversy construction and countermobilization. The study combines quantitative and qualitative content analytical data, and a semi-structured interview with one of BI's national leaders. It shows that media coverage increases when mobilization dwells with issues on which the group is credible, and when it triggers countermobilization. Two strategies of interaction with the mass media stand out: the personalization of political communication and the spectacularisation of the staging of protest.