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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
2nd degree (Master)
Responsible Department:
European Studies
Semester:
2nd Semester
Teaching Languages:
Hebrew
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Yuval Tal
Coordinator Office Hours:
By appointment
Teaching Staff:
Dr. yuval tal
Course/Module description:
France is a country of immigration. In the nineteenth century millions of labor migrants and refugees from Spain, Italy, Belgium, and the Russian Empire settled in France. In the twentieth century millions of Asian and African postcolonial immigrants arrived in France. These massive migration waves led to the development of a unique French immigration policy as well as particular immigration challenges. This course will examine how the French state and French society dealt with immigration and immigrant communities, which groups French governments worked to integrate into French society and politics and which groups were left outside, and how immigrants themselves worked to improve their legal and social standing in France. Throughout the course we will discuss topics such as: Immigration and French nationality law, immigrants and immigration in the colonies, Jewish-Muslims relations from North Africa to France, immigration and class politics, racism and Islamophobia, and multi-culturalism.
Course/Module aims:
Students will become familiar with the major questions and themes in the history, historiography, and theory of immigration in France. In addition, students will improve or acquire methodological skills in conducting research on immigrants and immigration, and immerse themselves in the major debates about immigrants and immigration in the historical field.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will become familiar with the major questions and themes in the history, historiography, and theory of immigration in France. In addition, students will improve or acquire methodological skills in conducting research on immigrants and immigration, and immerse themselves in the major debates about immigrants and immigration in the historical field.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Class discussion
Course/Module Content:
1. Introduction
2. France: A Country of Immigration
Gérard Noiriel. The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. Trans. Geoffroy De Laforcade. Minneapolis, 1996, Chapter 1.
3. Immigration and Republican Assimilation
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, 1992, 85-113.
4. Republican Immigration Policy in the Colonies
Yuval Tal, “The “Latin” Melting Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021): 85-118.
5. European and North African Immigrants in Interwar France
Mary Dewhurst Lewis. “The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille,” French Politics, Culture & Society 20:3 (2002), 65–96.
6. Immigration Policy in Vichy France
Patrick Weil, How to be French. Trans. Catherine Porter. Durham, 2008, 87-124.
7. Jews and Muslims in Post-Decolonization France
Ethan B. Katz. The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France. Cambridge, 2015.
8. African and Caribbean Postcolonial Immigration
Félix F. Germain. Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974. East Lansing, 2016, 57-76.
9. Immigrant Class Politics After 1968
Burleigh Hendrickson. Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar. Ithaca, 2022, 136–56.
10. Closing the Borders
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, 1992, 138-164.
11. The Veil Affairs
John Bowen. Why the French don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. Princeton, 2007, 65-97.
12. Film Screening: Laurent Cantet, “Entre les murs” (2008)
13. Multi-Ethnic France
Christopher Thompson, “From Black-Blanc-Beur to Black-Black-Black?: “L'Affaire des Quotas” and the Shattered “Image of 1998,” French Politics, Culture & Society 33:1 (2015), 101-121.
Required Reading:
1. Introduction
2. France: A Country of Immigration
Gérard Noiriel. The French Melting Pot: Immigration, Citizenship, and National Identity. Trans. Geoffroy De Laforcade. Minneapolis, 1996, Chapter 1.
3. Immigration and Republican Assimilation
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, 1992, 85-113.
4. Republican Immigration Policy in the Colonies
Yuval Tal, “The “Latin” Melting Pot: Ethnorepublican Thinking and Immigrant Assimilation in and through Colonial Algeria,” French Historical Studies 44:1 (2021): 85-118.
5. European and North African Immigrants in Interwar France
Mary Dewhurst Lewis. “The Strangeness of Foreigners: Policing Migration and Nation in Interwar Marseille,” French Politics, Culture & Society 20:3 (2002), 65–96.
6. Immigration Policy in Vichy France
Patrick Weil, How to be French. Trans. Catherine Porter. Durham, 2008, 87-124.
7. Jews and Muslims in Post-Decolonization France
Ethan B. Katz. The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France. Cambridge, 2015.
8. African and Caribbean Postcolonial Immigration
Félix F. Germain. Decolonizing the Republic: African and Caribbean Migrants in Postwar Paris, 1946–1974. East Lansing, 2016, 57-76.
9. Immigrant Class Politics After 1968
Burleigh Hendrickson. Decolonizing 1968: Transnational Student Activism in Tunis, Paris, and Dakar. Ithaca, 2022, 136–56.
10. Closing the Borders
Rogers Brubaker, Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany. Cambridge, 1992, 138-164.
11. The Veil Affairs
John Bowen. Why the French don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. Princeton, 2007, 65-97.
12. Film Screening: Laurent Cantet, “Entre les murs” (2008)
13. Multi-Ethnic France
Christopher Thompson, “From Black-Blanc-Beur to Black-Black-Black?: “L'Affaire des Quotas” and the Shattered “Image of 1998,” French Politics, Culture & Society 33:1 (2015), 101-121.
Additional Reading Material:
Grading Scheme :
Written / Oral / Practical Exam 80 %
Active Participation / Team Assignment 20 %
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