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CFTC/CFDT Attitudes towards Immigration in the Parisian Region: Making Immigrant Workers' Condition a Cause

Blévis, Laure ; Pezet, Eric

Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2012-02, Vol.49 (3), p.685-701 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

London, England: Sage Publications, Ltd

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CFTC/CFDT Attitudes towards Immigration in the Parisian Region: Making Immigrant Workers' Condition a Cause
Author: Blévis, Laure ; Pezet, Eric
Subjects: Alien labor ; Attitudes ; Communism ; Emigrants and Immigrants - education ; Emigrants and Immigrants - history ; Emigrants and Immigrants - legislation & jurisprudence ; Emigrants and Immigrants - psychology ; Emigration and Immigration - history ; Emigration and Immigration - legislation & jurisprudence ; France ; History of medicine ; History, 20th Century ; Housing ; Housing - economics ; Housing - history ; Housing - legislation & jurisprudence ; Housing conditions ; Immigrants ; Immigration ; Labor unionization ; Labour migration ; Markets ; Migrant Workers ; Migrants ; Noncitizens ; Paris ; Paris - ethnology ; Poverty Areas ; Prejudice ; Public opinion ; Slums ; Social movements ; Social Problems - economics ; Social Problems - ethnology ; Social Problems - history ; Social Problems - legislation & jurisprudence ; Social Problems - psychology ; Socioeconomic Factors - history ; Socioeconomic status ; Special Issue: Representation, Labour Markets and Immigrant Workers ; Studies ; Trade unions ; Unions ; Urban policy ; Voting rights ; War ; Work - economics ; Work - history ; Work - physiology ; Work - psychology ; Workforce ; Working class ; Xenophobia
Is Part Of: Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2012-02, Vol.49 (3), p.685-701
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Description: This paper, which is based on the detailed analysis of the post-war archives of the French Christian union Confédération Française des Travailleurs Chrétiens (CFTC), which became the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail (CFDT) in 1964, highlights the difficulties, both from a practical and ideological point of view, for a militant organisation to embrace the cause of immigrant workers and to give them a voice. The CFDT had to 'construct' immigrant workers as a group they could represent, which means as a group that relates to French workers, despite possible xenophobia. A key moment was the denunciation of their housing conditions that make immigrant workers not competitors in the job market but victims of injustice. The union had to reinvent its engagement frames in order to include the specific problems faced by the immigrant workforce. The study shows that the urban dimension was essential in this process as Paris slums made visible an important plight of migrants and provided the opportunity to change public opinion.
Publisher: London, England: Sage Publications, Ltd
Language: English

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CFTC/CFDT Attitudes towards Immigration in the Parisian Region: Making Immigrant Workers' Condition a Cause

Blévis, Laure ; Pezet, Eric

London, England: Sage Publications, Ltd

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