Undocumented Families and Political Communites: Parents Fighting Depotations
Damien de Blic
(1)
,
Claudette Lafaye
(2, 3)
Damien de Blic
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Claudette Lafaye
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Résumé
In early 2000, the hardening of immigration laws in France threatened many undocumented foreigners with deportation. Among these foreigners, many had children educated in French schools. Facing this situation, parents of pupils set up a network in 2004 (“Réseau Education Sans Frontières” [RESF], still active today), to denounce the deportation of young children, prevent these evictions and regularise the status of the endangered families. This chapter aims to analyse the original critical register developed by these militants. Reluctant to use overly general political categories to defend the undocumented immigrants, they want to first show that they are an integral part of local communities. Support committees are anchored in a local environment and the network gives national visibility to the issue of “undocumented families”. Thus the RESF activists are not building a cause in the usual way, by detaching individual cases from local and contingent situations but, conversely, by relying on their singularity and irreducibility. The political fight consists here in showing that legal and administrative criteria are not enough to define membership and integration: the inclusion in the life of the neighbourhood or school offers an alternative definition of political community.
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Undocumented Families and Political Communites: Parents Fighting Depotations
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In early 2000, the hardening of immigration laws in France threatened many undocumented foreigners with deportation. Among these foreigners, many had children educated in French schools. Facing this situation, parents of pupils set up a network in 2004 (“Réseau Education Sans Frontières” [RESF], still active today), to denounce the deportation of young children, prevent these evictions and regularise the status of the endangered families. This chapter aims to analyse the original critical register developed by these militants. Reluctant to use overly general political categories to defend the undocumented immigrants, they want to first show that they are an integral part of local communities. Support committees are anchored in a local environment and the network gives national visibility to the issue of “undocumented families”. Thus the RESF activists are not building a cause in the usual way, by detaching individual cases from local and contingent situations but, conversely, by relying on their singularity and irreducibility. The political fight consists here in showing that legal and administrative criteria are not enough to define membership and integration: the inclusion in the life of the neighbourhood or school offers an alternative definition of political community.
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Auteur(s) |
Damien de Blic
1
, Claudette Lafaye
2, 3
1
Cresppa-LabToP -
Laboratoire Théories du politique : pouvoir et relations sociales
( 461783 )
- Cresppa-LABTOP
59, rue Pouchet
75 849 Paris cedex 17
- France
2
LAVUE -
Laboratoire Architecture, Ville, Urbanisme, Environnement
( 110599 )
- Université Paris Nanterre - UMR CNRS 7218 LAVUE - Bâtiment Max Weber - SHS - 4e étage - 200 avenue de la République - 92001 Nanterre
- France
3
CRH -
Centre de Recherche sur l'Habitat
( 406173 )
- ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine
3-15, quai Panhard et Levassor
75013 Paris France
- France
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ISBN |
978-3-030-18987-7
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Date de publication |
2019-10-04
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Page/Identifiant |
21-44
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Lieu de publication |
London
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URL éditeur |
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030189860
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Langue du document |
Anglais
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Titre de l'ouvrage |
Everyday Resistance. French Activism in the 21st Century
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Vulgarisation |
Non
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Audience |
Internationale
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DOI | 10.1007/978-3-030-18987-7_2 |
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