Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany

Cover Page -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- France, Germany, and the United States -- Negotiating Identities -- The Nation-State in Crisis -- Citizenship and Multiculturalism -- Methodology -- Chapter One. The War of Words -- On the Immigrant -- Boundaries of Identity or "Threshold of Tolerance -- The Battle of Numbers -- Who Is Who? -- The Right of Difference or "Praise of Indifference -- Between Assimilation and Return -- The Era of Communities -- Chapter Two. Representation of Political Traditions -- On the Nature of Representation: An "Ideal Nation -- Integration "a la franchise -- Dream of German Unity -- E Pluribus Unum -- The Search for Social Cohesion -- Religions and Social Cohesion -- Defining New Solidarities -- Limits of Representation -- The Category of Experience -- Representation Stops at the Law -- Chapter Three. The Territories of Identity -- Incompatible Equations -- The Ethnicization of Territory -- Suburbs in France: Places Managed by Tension -- Colonies of Turks in Germany -- Area and Era of Tensions -- Social Immobility and "Ghettos -- Violence, Rage, and Fears -- In Search of the Social Bond -- Universality and Ethnicity -- Redefining Solidarities in France -- A "Multicultural" Germany -- Chapter Four. The Invention of the Cultural -- The Reappropriation of a Cultural Identity in France -- The Assertion of Cultural Identity in Germany -- Islam Is Everywhere! -- An Imagined Transnational Cultural Community -- Chapter Five. The Politicization of Identities in France -- The Emergence of New Divisions -- Republican Rhetoric -- The Emergence of an Ethnic Market -- Forming a Community -- Thwarting Islam -- Forming a Muslim Community -- Between the Mosque and the School -- The Recall of the Universal -- French Laicite -- Islam in the Feminine.