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What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution

There are two thrusts to French immigration policy: restricting new arrivals and, simultaneously, facilitating access to French nationality. In the recent period, the public authorities have focused closely on naturalization, and this has led to a significant increase in number of persons naturalize...

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Auteurs principaux:	Fassin, Didier, Mazouz, Sarah
Format:	Article ou chapitre numérique
Sprog:	Français
Udgivet:	2009
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spelling	cairn-RFS_505_0037RFS1Revue française de sociologie https://shs.cairn.info/revue-francaise-de-sociologie-1-2009-5-page-37?lang=en https://doi.org/10.3917/rfs.505.0037 What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution Fassin, DidierMazouz, Sarah2009 fre Revue française de sociologie \| 50 \| 5 \| 2009-12-17 \| p. 37-64 \| 0035-2969 RFS_5056 There are two thrusts to French immigration policy: restricting new arrivals and, simultaneously, facilitating access to French nationality. In the recent period, the public authorities have focused closely on naturalization, and this has led to a significant increase in number of persons naturalized French, and to the development of a solemn ceremony for conferring on them the certificate officializing their new status. On the basis of a three-year study conducted in the Paris region, we show that naturalization may be considered as a rite of passage that transforms the foreigner into a citizen after a long selection test, whose positive outcome is then celebrated by an integration ceremony. Above all, it may be considered as a rite of institution that brings about a dual separation: among immigrants who are candidates for citizenship, the test distinguishes those deemed worthy of joining the national community, but the ceremony also differentiates within the nation those who came from elsewhere. The ambiguity of naturalization thus inheres in the fact that at the moment it produces sameness, it introduces otherness, as is brought to light by a comparison of the celebrations observed in the state administration of the prefecture with those observed in municipalities. Nevertheless, the ritual is a performative act that brings into existence what it utters and ties the national community together through the promise of a genuine contract.Cairn free access
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description	There are two thrusts to French immigration policy: restricting new arrivals and, simultaneously, facilitating access to French nationality. In the recent period, the public authorities have focused closely on naturalization, and this has led to a significant increase in number of persons naturalized French, and to the development of a solemn ceremony for conferring on them the certificate officializing their new status. On the basis of a three-year study conducted in the Paris region, we show that naturalization may be considered as a rite of passage that transforms the foreigner into a citizen after a long selection test, whose positive outcome is then celebrated by an integration ceremony. Above all, it may be considered as a rite of institution that brings about a dual separation: among immigrants who are candidates for citizenship, the test distinguishes those deemed worthy of joining the national community, but the ceremony also differentiates within the nation those who came from elsewhere. The ambiguity of naturalization thus inheres in the fact that at the moment it produces sameness, it introduces otherness, as is brought to light by a comparison of the celebrations observed in the state administration of the prefecture with those observed in municipalities. Nevertheless, the ritual is a performative act that brings into existence what it utters and ties the national community together through the promise of a genuine contract.
author	Fassin, Didier Mazouz, Sarah
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author_facet	Fassin, Didier Mazouz, Sarah
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title	What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution
title_short	What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution
title_full	What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution
title_fullStr	What Is it to Become French ? Naturalization as a Republican Rite of Institution
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