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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1: Introduction to Research on Identifications -- French Debates over Frenchness -- Identification Argument and Category Name as Components of Identification -- Methodology of Research on the Relationship Between Identifications in the Fictional and Autobiographical Texts -- Results of Quantitative Studies -- Bibliography -- Texts Analysed -- References -- 2: Names and Arguments: Algerians and the Descendants of Algerian Immigrants in France -- The Republic, Its Citizens, Foreigners and Strangers from the Suburbs -- Identification of Algerian Immigrants from the Beginning of the Colonial Conquest to 1974 -- Algerians and the Descendants of Algerian Immigrants in the Structure of French Society After 1974 -- Bibliography -- 3: French and Algerian Identifications in the Context of the Colonial Period -- Algerianness as Part of Frenchness: A Republican, Political Definition of the French Nation -- Algerianness and Frenchness as Separate Characteristics: The Colonial, Ethnic Definition of the French Nation -- Algerianness and Frenchness as Conflicting Characteristics: The Algerian War and Its Consequences -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Texts Analysed -- References -- 4: Family and Religious Identification -- The Family: Where Algerian and French Characteristics Coexist -- Family: Different 'Speeds' of Acquiring French Characteristics -- Family: Differences in Preserving Algerian Characteristics -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Texts Analysed -- References -- 5: Identification with Immigrants -- Hereditary Migrants: Migration as a Choice of Frenchness -- Immigrants: Origin as an Obstacle to French Identification -- Emigrants: French of Algerian Origin in Algeria -- We Are Not Migrants! -- Summary -- Bibliography -- Texts Analysed -- References -- 6: Identification with the Suburbs.

The article presents the internal aspects of the social sub-system of non-profit and voluntary associations in France, whose members are people holding Polish and dual Polish-French citizenships as well as French people of Polish origin and who pursue the goals related to the presence of the Polish immigrant and post-immigrant communities in France. In relation with these organisations, the article provides answers to the following questions: 1) What are their decision-making structures? 2) How mobile are the members within the structures and where does the mobility stem from? 3) What is the cooperation like between the movers and shakers in a specific organisation? The conclusions have been based on data from five case studies and 48 individual in-depth interviews revolving around typologically diverse associations plus data obtained in the course of an institutional opinion poll, carried out among Polish immigrant organisations with an online CAWI questionnaire completed by members of the Polish diaspora in France.

Podobnie jak Émile Durkheim w B ordeaux, tak Florian Znaniecki w Poznaniu stworzył własną szkołę socjologiczną. Pojęcie to odnosi się w tym przypadku do dydaktycznej, badawczej, naukowej i organizacyjnej działalności F. Znanieckiego i jego współpracowników w latach 1920–1939 podejmowanej przez nich przede wszystkim w ramach dwóch niezależnych instytucji: Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego i założonego w Poznaniu Polskiego Instytutu Socjologicznego. Poznań stanowił centrum działalności szkoły, jednak jej oddziaływanie było dalece szersze. Przejawiało się w inicjatywach integrujących różne środowiska socjologiczne w Polsce, utrzymywaniu kontaktu z innymi ośrodkami akademickimi w Europie i w Stanach Zjednoczonych, a także w podejmowaniu pracy naukowej lub zakładaniu własnych instytutów badawczych w nowych miejscach w Polsce i poza jej granicami przez wychowanków F. Znanieckiego. Artykuł wskazuje na wybrane najważniejsze cechy poznańskiej szkoły socjologicznej, do których zaliczyć można przyjęcie reprezentowanego przez F. Znanieckiego poglądu na przedmiot socjologii oraz wytworzenie się bliskiej więzi między nim ("Mistrzem") a jego uczniami i współpracownikami. W końcowej części artykuł przedstawia niektóre szczegółowe kwestie, których wyjaśnienie pozwoliłoby lepiej zrozumieć charakter rozwoju szkoły Znanieckiego, a w szerszym ujęciu – socjologii polskiej i jej związków z socjologią europejską i amerykańską.

The paper presents two sociological approaches to the migration experience. In the first approach, which corresponds to Georg Simmel's essay The Philosophy of adventure, migration is regarded as an adventure. In the second approach, which was particularly explored by Abdelmalek Sayad (La double absence), migration is experienced as an exile. However, "adventure" and "exile" describe two different model situations of the migrant's experience; they both cause the presence of homesickness and the lack of feeling that the inhabited space is a new home. This is why the migrant's experience of adventure or of exile is treated in the paper as a challenge for every city policy. In the context of contemporary theories (like the metamodernism of Vermeulen and van den Akker), the author of the paper presents the propositions of urban policy which could meet the migrants' needs and make them real members of the urban community.

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The article applies to three autobiographical novels written in the 1980s and 1990s by citizens of France, second generation Algerian immigrants. The authors of these novels widely relate to their own experience of life in the suburbs of French cities. The protagonists are young people who on the one hand feel French and demand acceptance, and on the other experience acts of discrimination. Moreover, their relationship to traditional Algerian culture is also ambivalent. The place with which they identify themselves is not France, in spite of the citizenship, nor Algeria, in spite of the origin, but their own district, which is a place where they live their everyday life. The author of the article analyzes the chosen novels through the perspective of the republican model of integration which excludes recognition of ethnic origin of the citizens. The article, referring to M. Foucault's theory of heterotopia, argues that although the novels in question sensitize French readers to the various social questions, they, paradoxically, support the typical thinking of the republican model.

This book presents contributions from migration sociologists inspired by Florian Znaniecki's theory and the results of his studies to conduct their own research in countries like Austria, China, Greece and Poland. The authors evaluate today's migration phenomena with reference to a coherent theoretical system. The book can be used as a manual presenting the tools for examining the migration experience from many angles: a sense of national identity (ethnic and civic), family ties, the importance of the social environment in the process of an individual's integration with the society or an evolution of entire social systems within which the migrants operate

The Memory of War, the War of Memory: Social Memory of the War in Algeria in Relations Between France and the Algerian ImmigrantsThe year 2012 marks the 50th anniversary of the official end of the Algerian war. The memory of this conflict and other events in France which accompanied it is still alive in French society. After many years of oblivion and lack of interest from the highest authorities, this conflict once again becomes the subject of great controversy and heated debate. The disputes focus on the four groups: the French born in Algeria, the Algerians cooperating with the French troops during the war, the other Algerian immigrants and, finally, the former military personnel serving in Algeria. Each group has its own perspective of the events, whereas the politicians try to exploit the memory of the war in the ongoing disputes concerning the integration of the immigrants and the riots in the suburbs. All of this means that even after 50 years the issue of the Algerian war is still evoking new conflicts.