Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in France

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Core issues related to recent immigration, its impact in France and reflection on the similarities and dissimilarities between French culture/society and your own.
• Relevant concepts and theoretical tools for this area necessary for analysing the material and dealing with it appropriately.
• The various contexts include culture, history, politics and society.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Formulate and defend arguments clearly and persuasively on the basis of evidence.
• Apply knowledge, understanding and analysis critically to different topics.
• Identify concepts and data relevant to the task in hand.
• Evaluate sources of information in relation to one another and locate and analyse key arguments.
• Define, present and exemplify concepts.
• Analyse and discuss questions.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Plan and organise your learning through self-management.
• Produce writing in appropriate genres and to required conventions, including referencing and identification.
• Take notes and keep records.
• Adhere to guidelines and deadlines.

This module offers you the opportunity to gain a practical and in-depth knowledge of immigration in contemporary France. In the introductory segment you will explore the key concepts of race, ethnicity, and integration. In the following weeks, you will learn about how the framework for treating immigration in today’s France was established in the 1970s and 1980s. You will then explore the experiences of ethnic minorities in the banlieues along with the motivations and strategies of anti-racism associations. Finally, you will be invited to reflect on whether the ‘double marginalisation’ of ethnic-minority women has been addressed through the creation of new forms of anti-racism.

Teaching methods include

• weekly lecture
• weekly seminar

Learning activities include

• seminar presentation
• independent learning in preparation for weekly classes

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.