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In this article, we study two groups of immigrants, one from France, and the other from the United States, who have become citizens of the nations to which they migrated. In both cases, the migrations were largely organized by public offices by means of organizations charged with the duty to recruit and direct immigrant-citizens of a specific genre. Our hypothesis is that the institutionalization of immigration and the management of immigrants by this type organization has enduringly shaped the forms and spaces of their requirements through the creation of specific channels of expression for these citizens, that are marked with ambivalence. Adapted from the source document.

To talk publicly about race remains taboo in France. Since its origins in the late eighteenth century, the French Republic has grounded its political identity on the theoretical equality of all its citizens, regardless of their origins. In practice, this "universalist" ideology tends to deny and neglect blatant racial inequalities among French citizens. Unlike in the United States in recent years, there has been no public discussion about whether France has turned "post-racial" since most white French people consider that their country never entered any sort of "racial era" to begin with. In fact, the French academic world is one of the few arenas in which debates over the issue of race have been accepted and sometimes encouraged.