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This second edition ofMulti-Ethnic Francespans politics and economics, social structures and cultural practices and has been updated to cover events which have occurred on the national and international stage since the first edition was published. These include:recent developments in theBanlieues, including the riots of 2005the growing visibility of sub-Saharan Africans in France's evolving ethnic mixthe reverberations in France of international developments such as 9/11, the second Intifada and the Iraq Warsthe renewed controversy over the wearing of the Islamic headscarfthe development of anti-discrimination policy and the debate over 'positive discrimination'.Immigration is one of the most significant and persistent issues in contemporary France. It has become central to political debate with the rise, on one side, of Jean-Marie Le Pen's extreme right-wing party and, on the other, of Islamist terrorism. InMulti-Ethnic France, Alec G. Hargreaves unmasks the prejudices and misconceptions faced by minorities of Muslim heritage and lays bare the social and political neglect behind the riots of 2005.This second edition is fully updated, and includes a glossary and chronology, as well as a revised bibliography. | Multi-Ethnic France by Alec G. Hargreaves, Paperback | Indigo Chapters