Broadly comparative history of French nationality, from the French Revolution to the present, tying the politics of nationality to those of demography, colonial history, immigration, and conscription.
Broadly comparative history of French nationality, from the French Revolution to the present, tying the politics of nationality to those of demography, colonial history, immigration, and conscription.
Patrick Weil is Senior Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research (University of Paris, Sorbonne) and a professor at the Paris School of Economics. The author of many books, he was a member of France’s Governmental Advisory Council on Integration from 1996 to 2002, and a member of the Presidential Commission created by President Jacques Chirac on the “implementation of the principle of secularism within the French Republic” in 2003. In 1997, following a request from Prime Minister Lionel Jospin, he produced two influential reports on nationality and immigration legislation. Under its original title, Qu’est-ce qu-un Français , How to Be French won the François Furet prize. Catherine Porter, Professor Emeritus in the Foreign Languages Department at the State University of New York, Cortland, won the Chevalier d’Or des Palmes Académiques for advancing Franco-American relations through translation and teaching.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One. The Construction of Modern Nationality Law in France 1. From the Old Regime to the Civil Code: The Two Revolutions in French Nationality 11 2. The Triumph of Jus Soli (1803-1889) 30 3. Naturalization Comes to the Aid of the Nation (1889-1940) 54 Part Two. Ethnic Crises in French Nationality 4. Vichy: A Racist and Anti-Semitic Nationality Policy 87 5. The Difficult Reestablishment of Republican Legislation 125 6. The Algerian Crisis in French Nationality 152 Conclusion to Parts One and Two 168 Part Three. Nationality in Comparison and In Practice 7. Jus Soli versus Jus Sanguinis: The False Opposition between French and German Law 173 8. Discrimination within Nationality Law 194 9. How Does One Become or Remain French? French Nationality in Practice 228 Conclusion 250 Glossary 255 Notes 263 Maps and Documents 375 Bibliography 409 Index 427
Acronyms and Abbreviations vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part One. The Construction of Modern Nationality Law in France 1. From the Old Regime to the Civil Code: The Two Revolutions in French Nationality 11 2. The Triumph of Jus Soli (1803-1889) 30 3. Naturalization Comes to the Aid of the Nation (1889-1940) 54 Part Two. Ethnic Crises in French Nationality 4. Vichy: A Racist and Anti-Semitic Nationality Policy 87 5. The Difficult Reestablishment of Republican Legislation 125 6. The Algerian Crisis in French Nationality 152 Conclusion to Parts One and Two 168 Part Three. Nationality in Comparison and In Practice 7. Jus Soli versus Jus Sanguinis: The False Opposition between French and German Law 173 8. Discrimination within Nationality Law 194 9. How Does One Become or Remain French? French Nationality in Practice 228 Conclusion 250 Glossary 255 Notes 263 Maps and Documents 375 Bibliography 409 Index 427
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