Title :

The Value of Nation. Bureaucratic Practices and the Lived Experience in the French Naturalization Process

Author(s) :

Mazouz, Sarah [Auteur]
Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales - UMR 8026 [CERAPS]

Journal title :

French Politics, Culture & Society

Volume number :

37

Pages :

pp.139-161

Publisher :

Berghahn

Publication date :

2019

ISSN :

1537-6370

English keyword(s) :

Political anthropology f the State
France
Critical moral anthropology
Naturalization process
Racialisation
Ethnography

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie

English abstract : [en]

Drawing on ethnographical observations made in the Naturalization Office of a prefecture of the Paris region, and on interviews carried out with bureaucrats and French citizens who have been naturalized, this article ...
Show more >Drawing on ethnographical observations made in the Naturalization Office of a prefecture of the Paris region, and on interviews carried out with bureaucrats and French citizens who have been naturalized, this article examines both the institutional process of granting citizenship as well as its impact on subjectivities. It investigates the assumptions and broad judgments that underlie the granting of French citizenship to see how norms and values linked to this procedure circulate between bureaucrats and applicants. It focuses on the idea of “deservingness,” linked to the act of being granted French citizenship, to determine how bureaucrats from the Naturalization Office and French naturalized citizens differently appropriate this notion. By addressing the articulated difference between bureaucratic practice and lived experience, this article aims to highlight the political, moral, and ethical dimensions at stake in the procedure of making foreigners into French citizens.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

CNRS
Université de Lille

Collections :

• Centre d'Études et de Recherches Administratives, Politiques et Sociales (CERAPS) - UMR 8026

Submission date :

2023-12-20T13:16:19Z
2024-03-19T09:25:08Z