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@article{ART001321009},
author={Myung-Sook Han},
title={French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993},
journal={Korean Review of French History},
issn={1229-702X},
year={2009},
number={20},
pages={153-184}

TY - JOUR
AU - Myung-Sook Han
TI - French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993
JO - Korean Review of French History
PY - 2009
VL - null
IS - 20
PB - KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
SP - 153
EP - 184
SN - 1229-702X
AB - Nation-State has invented many instruments to guarantee its existence and preserve its population and territory. Nationality Code is the category to delineate legal membership in a state. But the boundaries of nation have been historically changed in accordance with its socioeconomic conditions, demographic needs, and military tensions. France that has a long history of immigrations in Europe has also revised its nationality law several times. There are several reasons for France to revise its nationality law in 1980s and 1990s. At first, the origin of immigrants has changed. It was unfamiliar and fearful situation for the old immigrant country France to encounter for the first time. The number of non-European immigrants has exceeded that of European immigrants. Most of them are muslim ex-colonial populations, especially from North Africa. Besides, the children of them grow to get a suffrage in the middle of 1980s. The last reason is that the economic condition of France has deteriorated since the period of Glorious Thirty Years was gone. What the government of France had tried to do was to call for a procedure of will manifestation to the applicants who wanted to acquire the French nationality. The basis of this argument was so-called French nationalism model based on a voluntary assent of its membership in contrast with that of German ethnical relation. Although it is impossible to apply this French model to every period coherently, the government consider the will manifestation process as a sign of their assimilation to the French society. Not only National Front but all the major parties of the Right also readopted a logic of E. Renan and emphasized an ideology that France is one and indivisible secular Republic. So they highlighted the religious, cultural difference of muslim immigrants in France, and asked them to assimilate voluntarily with French secular Repu- blicanism. But the real intention under the French national rhetoric was to exclude many North African muslim immigrants and their children from the French society. The exclusionary reform of nationality code proposed in 1986 failed after two years of struggle. Despite of seeming failure, substantive change in muslim integration practices became evident when Hijab Affair occurred. Finally, a restrictive revision of the code was passed by a newly elected conservative government in 1993. Although a reinstalled Socialist government in 1997 has abolished these revised articles, it is obvious that the distrust and the doubt about muslim immigrants have not disappeared in the French society.
KW - Nationality Code;Immigrant;Integration;Muslim;Racism;Republicanism;Minority)
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Myung-Sook Han. (2009). French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993. Korean Review of French History, 20, 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. 2009, "French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993", Korean Review of French History, no.20, pp.153-184.

Myung-Sook Han "French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993" Korean Review of French History 20 pp.153-184 (2009) : 153.

Myung-Sook Han. French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993. 2009; 20 : 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. "French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993" Korean Review of French History no.20(2009) : 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993. Korean Review of French History, 20, 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993. Korean Review of French History. 2009; 20 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993. 2009; 20 : 153-184.

Myung-Sook Han. "French Nationality Code and the Problem of North African Immigrants, 1986-1993" Korean Review of French History no.20(2009) : 153-184.