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Integration of migrants into French society. The limits of the monolingual French universalist model

Intégration des migrants dans la société française. Les limites du modèle universaliste français monolingue

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French is widely used as a criterion for identifying the national community. It has been a political and ideological instrument since the 1789 Revolution. The invention of the fiction of a common, unifying language that transcends divisions and cements the nation is at the heart of the construction of French national identity. In this respect, it is a force of resistance to otherness insofar as it rejects the use of a language other than French in private life. This concept can also be interpreted as a way of neutralising possible oppositions, which would be organised around a community of languages other than French. The paper will hypothesise that these limits are partly due to the smoothing of linguistic and cultural diversity, linked to the republican conception of the Nation-State, based on the one country/one language model. The concealment of the visibility of diversity creates a deficit of legitimacy for the populations concerned and can lead to the emergence of hostile feelings towards the host society among certain categories of the population, or a feeling of self-hatred, anomie, loss of identity, insofar as it contributes to creating situations of latent linguistic and cultural conflicts. The paper shows that the recurrent community tensions in the segregated urban spaces of the suburbs lead to question the models of contemporary linguistic policies by showing that abstract universalism, based on linguistic and cultural unity, which does not recognise difference, and which may have appeared to be a bulwark against these drifts, has found its limits.
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hal-04606269 , version 1 (10-06-2024)

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Marie-Madeleine Bertucci. Integration of migrants into French society. The limits of the monolingual French universalist model. Claudia Anamaria Iov. Migration dynamics and new trends in European (in)security. Old challenges in a changing world, presa universitara Clujeana, pp.157-172, 2023, 978-606-37-1875-5. ⟨hal-04606269⟩
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