{"id":86,"date":"2011-03-02T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T17:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/understandingsecularism.wp.trincoll.edu\/2011\/03\/02\/the-ambiguous-position-of-french-muslim-women-between-republican-integration-and-religious-claims\/"},"modified":"2011-10-12T11:19:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T15:19:25","slug":"the-ambiguous-position-of-french-muslim-women-between-republican-integration-and-religious-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/the-ambiguous-position-of-french-muslim-women-between-republican-integration-and-religious-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ambiguous Position of French Muslim Women: Between Republican Integration and Religious Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <strong>Camille Froidevaux-Metterie<\/strong>, <em>Ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rences en science politique (Associate Professor of Political Science) at Universite Paris II Pantheon-Assas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cveils quarrel\u201d\u2014also known as the \u201cscarf a\ufb00air\u201d\u2014is a useful point of entry into the problem of la\u00efcit\u00e9 in France today, not only because of its topicality, but also because the issue epitomizes the challenge to which the French State, in its secular form, is confronted. When approaching the problem of some young veiled girls in the public schools, our country must consider the \ufb01ve million Muslims who live in France, half of whom have obtained French citizenship. Despite the fact that the right to family reuni\ufb01cation\u2014given to immigrants in 1976\u2014has recently been repealed, and also that President Nicolas Sarkozy wants the process to be restricted, we must keep in mind that its implementation has entailed the permanent settling of hundreds of thousands of families, whose children, whether born in France or not, do not want to go back to the country of origin of their parents. Contrary to what was expected\u2014i.e., that the immigrants, who arrived in the 1950s to participate in the industrial boom would go back home once their work was \ufb01nished\u2014there is a strong trend towards permanent settlement.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View The Ambiguous Position of French Muslim Women: Between Republican Integration and Religious Claims on Scribd\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/17232632\/The-Ambiguous-Position-of-French-Muslim-Women-Between-Republican-Integration-and-Religious-Claims\">The Ambiguous Position of French Muslim Women: Between Republican Integration and Religious Claims<\/a> <object height=\"600\" width=\"100%\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"opaque\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"document_id=17232632&amp;access_key=key-246u5z3yeudk47mu9b2d&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\"><embed name=\"doc_1927\" src=\"http:\/\/d1.scribdassets.com\/ScribdViewer.swf?document_id=17232632&amp;access_key=key-246u5z3yeudk47mu9b2d&amp;page=1&amp;viewMode=list\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"600\" width=\"100%\" wmode=\"opaque\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Camille Froidevaux-Metterie, Ma\u00eetre de conf\u00e9rences en science politique (Associate Professor of Political Science) at Universite Paris II Pantheon-Assas The \u201cveils quarrel\u201d\u2014also known as the \u201cscarf a\ufb00air\u201d\u2014is a useful point of entry into the problem of la\u00efcit\u00e9 in France today, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/2011\/03\/02\/the-ambiguous-position-of-french-muslim-women-between-republican-integration-and-religious-claims\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,20,28,32,33],"tags":[54,63,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1164,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/1164"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/understandingsecularism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}