The myth of a migration crisis in France. Transformations of public actions and solidarist actions

Isabelle Rigoni (1)

1 Grhapes - Groupe de recherche sur le handicap, l’accessibilité, les pratiques éducatives et scolaires

France is an old immigration country but has been slow to recognize itself as such. Since 2000, the Western security context has produced a new stage in migration and asylum policies. The tragic and traumatic nature of terrorist attacks in France and other European countries has legitimized the strengthening of national security laws, fueled more conservative attitudes regarding cultural and ethnic diversity, and fed into debates on communitarianism, multiculturalism, and universalism. This chapter analyzes how migratory dynamics have been constructed as a crisis in contemporary France and examines the initiatives of civil society towards what politics and media consider to be a migration crisis. Finally, it analyzes the modes of action used by various social and institutional actors in the context of an imagined migration crisis.

Mots clés: NGO; asylum seekers; migration; diversity

Domaines: Sociologie; Science politique

Isabelle Rigoni. The myth of a migration crisis in France. Transformations of public actions and solidarist actions. Cecilia Menjivar; Maria Ruiz; Immanuel Ness. The Oxford Handbook of Migration Crises, Oxford University Press, pp.127-144, 2019. ⟨halshs-02111861⟩