Feeling French and Feeling being Seen as French

Cyril Jayet

Feeling French and Feeling being Seen as French
The Relations between Two Dimensions of National Belonging
Suivre cet auteur Cyril Jayet
In Sociologie Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2016, pages 113 to 132

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In this article I investigate the relation between the feeling of being French and the feeling of being considered as French. I shed light on the gap between these two feelings and how this gap varies with origin, how people acquire nationality, and the time they have lived in France. For the population of European ancestry, the feeling of belonging, while weaker at the beginning, gets stronger with time and is correlated with the feeling of being accepted. On the contrary, for people of African and Southeastern Asian ancestry, the results shed light on the gap between the two feelings: The feeling of being French is always stronger than the feeling of being accepted. This gap persists with the acquisition of nationality as well as among the second generation of immigrants.

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Immigration
integration
identity
nation

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ISO 690		Copy JAYET Cyril, « Se sentir français et se sentir vu comme un Français. Les relations entre deux dimensions de l’appartenance nationale », Sociologie, 2016/2 (Vol. 7), p. 113-132. DOI : 10.3917/socio.072.0113. URL : https://preprod.cairn.info/revue-sociologie-2016-2-page-113.htm
ISO 690		Copy JAYET Cyril, "Feeling French and Feeling being Seen as French. The Relations between Two Dimensions of National Belonging", Sociologie, 2016/2 (Vol. 7), p. 113-132. URL: https://preprod.cairn-int.info/journal-sociologie-2016-2-page-113.htm
MLA		Copy Jayet, Cyril. « Se sentir français et se sentir vu comme un Français. Les relations entre deux dimensions de l’appartenance nationale », Sociologie, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 113-132.
MLA		Copy Jayet, Cyril. "Feeling French and Feeling being Seen as French. The Relations between Two Dimensions of National Belonging", Sociologie, vol. 7, no. 2, 2016, pp. 113-132.
APA		Copy Jayet, C. (2016). Se sentir français et se sentir vu comme un Français: Les relations entre deux dimensions de l’appartenance nationale. Sociologie, 7, 113-132. https://doi.org/10.3917/socio.072.0113
APA		Copy Jayet, C. (2016). Feeling French and Feeling being Seen as French: The Relations between Two Dimensions of National Belonging. Sociologie, 7, 113-132. https://preprod.cairn-int.info/journal--2016-2-page-113.htm.
DOI		Copy https://doi.org/10.3917/socio.072.0113

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