30th Anniversary Best Sellers Sale! 30% off all formats! Foreigners in Their Own Country: Identity and Rejection in France | BERGHAHN BOOKS
Join our Email List Berghahn Books Logo

berghahn New York · Oxford
Browse All Books
Foreigners in Their Own Country: Identity and Rejection in France

View Table of Contents


Email Newsletters

Sign up for our email newsletters to get customized updates on new Berghahn publications.

Click here to select your preferences

Foreigners in Their Own Country

Identity and Rejection in France

Lawrence M. Martin

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4. license with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

268 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-088-6 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (October 2023)

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805390886


View CartYour country: - edit Recommend to your LibraryAvailable in GOBI®

Reviews

“This excellent new book by Martin, an anthropologist, is based upon extensive in-depth interviews and field work throughout France over a two-year period. The aim of the interviews and the overall project is to shed light on the experience of those individuals who are not seen as "French" because of their race and background. Martin succeeds in helping his subjects give voice to their stories of acceptance and rejection in everyday life within their country yet how they remain outsiders not necessarily by choice.” • Choice

“Harnessing an innovative ethnographic approach, Lawrence Martin masterfully taps into the racial dynamics of contemporary French society. This study will be valuable for scholars, policymakers, and students throughout Western Europe who are dealing with the crisis relating to so-called minorities in their countries.” • Paris Aslanidis, Yale University

Description

Based on in-depth interviews with people throughout France who trace their origins to non-European countries, Foreigners in Their Own Country reports on the experience of not being seen as “French” because of one’s physical appearance. Paying close attention to how individuals speak about themselves and their feelings of acceptance or rejection, this book provides an intimate account of the challenges faced by the millions of people in France—and throughout Western Europe—who fully participate in the life of their country but are often not seen as belonging there.

Lawrence M. Martin studied anthropology at Yale University and the University of Chicago. He practiced law before returning to anthropology in 2009. He has conducted fieldwork in Mali, Morocco, and France, and taught a course in ethnography at Yale. 

Subject: Political and Economic AnthropologyRefugee and Migration StudiesSociology
Area: France

Foreigners in Their Own Country by Lawrence M. Martin is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from Berghahn Open Migration and Development Studies initiative.

Full Text PDF | Full Text ePUB

OA ISBN: 978-1-80539-080-0



Contents

Download ToC (PDF)

Back to Top



Library Recommendation Form

Dear Librarian,

I would like to recommend Foreigners in Their Own Country Identity and Rejection in France for the library. Please include it in your next purchasing review with my strong recommendation. The RRP is: $135.00

I recommend this title for the following reasons:

BENEFIT FOR THE LIBRARY: This book will be a valuable addition to the library's collection.

REFERENCE: I will refer to this book for my research/teaching work.

STUDENT REFERRAL: I will regularly refer my students to the book to assist their studies.

OWN AFFILIATION: I am an editor/contributor to this book or another book in the Series (where applicable) and/or on the Editorial Board of the Series, of which this volume is part.