A political and social contextualisation of the 1980s for post-colonial migrants in France

This research aimed to understand the different mechanism of integration in France throughout the 1980s. Looking into the difference of strategies held at the national and local level with their degrees of influence and impact of peoples’ daily life. This research focuses on the developed mechanism and framing for integration in France through three distinct governments under the presidency of Valérie Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand. Through diving into parliamentary debates analysis, emerged different framing based on political perception of immigration, integration, racism, exclusion, hatred and policy strategies. While research carried at a local level focused more on social mobilisation and inclusivity to develop a frontal and pacific confrontation to hatred, racism and exclusion. To carry out this study, online and physical archival material documents were selected. The doors of ‘SOS Racisme’ were for the second time in their history open for research. Based on...Show moreThis research aimed to understand the different mechanism of integration in France throughout the 1980s. Looking into the difference of strategies held at the national and local level with their degrees of influence and impact of peoples’ daily life. This research focuses on the developed mechanism and framing for integration in France through three distinct governments under the presidency of Valérie Giscard d'Estaing and François Mitterrand. Through diving into parliamentary debates analysis, emerged different framing based on political perception of immigration, integration, racism, exclusion, hatred and policy strategies. While research carried at a local level focused more on social mobilisation and inclusivity to develop a frontal and pacific confrontation to hatred, racism and exclusion. To carry out this study, online and physical archival material documents were selected. The doors of ‘SOS Racisme’ were for the second time in their history open for research. Based on archival material, this study outlined that governance mechanism and different framing elevated at a national and local level of governmentality were different. It was found that due to a lack of understanding and physical exclusion of migrant population, a gap between communities was created. With the election of F. Mitterrand as President, new strategies for integration were develop and laid ground for social mobilisation to form. Hence, leading to a bottom-top approach and new means of understanding for a more fundamental perception of national wide diversity and integration strategies.Show less

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A political and social contextualisation of the 1980s for post-colonial migrants in France