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Pour Yvette Rocheron, les thèses néo-assimilationnistes , en particulier dans leur version essentialiste , peuvent donner des immigrés autant que des Français des images simplificatrices, voire stéréotypées. Elles peuvent conduire à une classification rigide des familles d origine immigrée. Bien quelle ne rende pas compte de la globalité de la question, une approche non-essentialiste, moins normative, est sans doute un reflet plus fidèle de la réalité, et peut permettre un nécessaire renouvellement des symboles de l'immigration. Une lecture critique d auteurs aussi divers que Jean-Claude Barreau, Christian Jelen, Emmanuel Todd, ou Michèle Tribalat.

This paper discusses the Asian Mother and Baby Campaign, an initiative in health promotion which aims to promote better maternity services for Asian women. The Campaign has been sponsored by the DHSS and the Save the Children Fund since in launch in September 1984. What is under consideration here is the medical, social and political background to the Campaign. How the Campaign relates to such issues as the interpretation of perinatal mortality rates, women's rights in obstetric care and racism in the NHS will be examined. The overall argument is that the Campaign, in its initial conception and objectives, represents an attempt by health authorities, to create a consensus among health professionals on how to meet the health needs of Asian mothers. Its reformist intentions tend to col lude, at the ideological level, with an image of a 'Black pathology' although they represent a genuine attempt to challenge personal racism. It is this core tension in the Campaign which will be discussed.

This article looks critically at the current literature about Aids and relates some of the assumptions to the concept of the `moral panic'. It discusses this concept in relation to what we know about mass communication effects today and looks at the encoding and decoding of messages in a specific social context. The article also examines the campaign on Aids which has been carried out in the UK and finally looks at the audience responses in opinion polls and in a small-scale study carried out at the Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester.

Dieser Beitrag untersucht kritisch die jüngste Literatur über AIDS und verbindet einige ihrer Thesen mit dem Begriff der Moralpanik. Dieser Begriff wird im Hinblick auf den gegenwärtigen Stand der Kenntnisse über die Auswirkungen der Massenkommunikation erörtert; die Ver- und Entschlüsselung des zu vermittelnden Stoffes in einem spezifischen gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhang wird untersucht. Der Beitrag befaßt sich auch mit der Informationskampagne über AIDS in Großbritannien und mit Zuschaueraussagen dazu in Meinungsbefragungen sowie in einer kleineren Studie, die am Centre for Mass Communication Research der Universität Leicester durchgeführt wurde." (Autorenreferat)