Resistance to Identity Categorization in France

Alain Blum (1, 2)

1 CERCEC - Centre d'études des mondes russe, caucasien et centre-européen
2 INED - Institut national d'études démographiques

For many years, public statistics in France, especially censuses, did not categorize the population on the basis of ethnicity. From the mid-1980s on, however, there has been a growing debate on immigration, leading to the progressive resurgence of the ethnicity question.

Mots clés: Categorization; Ethnic statistics

Mots clés: Catégorisation; statistique ethnique; histoire de la statistique

Domaines: Histoire

Alain Blum. Resistance to Identity Categorization in France. Kertzer David, Arel Dominique. Census and identity : the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national censuses., Cambridge University Press, pp.121-147, 2002, New Perspectives on anthropological and social demography. ⟨halshs-00784139⟩