Immigration and public opinion in France under the Fifth Republic.

Ivan Gastaut

Edition du Seuil – Paru le 4 janvier 2000 - Paris

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Recently, a survey found that xenophobia in France was being regression in public opinion. This French “pacification” at the very moment when the very subjects on Immigration and security seem to monopolize the public debate, is amply verified by Yvan Gastaut’s work.
The dark days of racism, violent hostility abroad, would be behind us.
And appropriately, the author has been the historian of this development since decolonization, economic crises, until France accepts its diversity better...

Yvan Gastaut succeeds in making a beautiful portrait of the difficult modernization of the land of human rights based on key scenes from the very contemporary France, the end of the war of Algeria, May 68, the outbreak of fire 'Aubervilliers in 1970, the famous "bulldozer", the rise of the extreme right, the different laws regulating immigration.

But what black hours! In analyzing the history, through the press, literature, movies, cartoons, etc.. Gastaut’s work was to show how, gradually, immigration became one of the axes of the political discourse, the dwelling on the divisions of opinion between the proponents of the universalistic and generous supporters of the closure, and it was to disclose publicly the confusion of politicians.

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