Violence et ethnicité dans l'école française
In: Revue européenne des migrations internationales: REMI, Band 14, Heft 1, S. 77-91
ISSN: 1777-5418
Violence and Ethnicity in French School
Éric DEBARBIEUX
In the current educational debates in Europe, the issue of school violence receives an enormous attention. In France, the representation of an "ethnic" cause to violence has a strong impact. After reminding how ethnicity must be seen not as a given but as a social construct, this article attempts to describe the discourse related to educational decay and to the clash of Barbarism and Civilization, when the issue of school violence is raised. It shows how the call for the restoration of identity is the consequence of a crisis of meaning in democratic liberal -yet dual- societies.