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(Inter)racialization: the regulation of domestic and urban space in housing North African migrants in post-colonial France
by Rébecca Suzanne Franco
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Submission summary
| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Rébecca Franco |
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| Preprint Link: | scipost_202106_00012v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | 2022-03-31 |
| Date submitted: | 2022-02-14 18:54 |
| Submitted by: | Franco, Rébecca |
| Submitted to: | Migration Politics |
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| Academic field: | Political Science |
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Abstract
Literature on immigrant housing and assimilation has shown how housing policies perpetuate, create, and contest racialized boundaries. This paper argues for the necessity to look at regulation of the domestic space together with regulation urban space. By reading “along” and “against” the archival grain of the French national archives and the Paris city archives, this paper looks at housing policies that targeted the North African migrant population in the 1960s and 1970s in France as colonial continuities. French authorities ostensibly encouraged gendered assimilation through spatial politics and interventions in the domestic space. Literature on the French context has argued how this perpetuated racialization in the housing process. Building upon feminist scholarship on gender, intimacy, and colonialism, this paper shows how these policies negated interracialized households and prevented interracialized intimacies. This helps understand how housing policies can reinforce racialized exclusion by regulating racial boundaries in urban space and domestic space together to negate and prevent interracialized households.
Author comments upon resubmission
I would like to thank you for engaging with my work and for your generous feedback and comments throughout this process. As for the latest revisions, I have made the following changes:
1. I have corrected the typo in the abstract and have generally corrected some additional typos, formatting and textual issues.
2. I have incorporated the proposed literature in the anonymous reviewer 1, whom I would like to thank for the suggestions.
a. I have incorporated the research by Lefevre and by Boisseuil on page 1 in the first paragraph.
b. I have added the point on the necessity to study what the state does and does not do on page 5, using King et al.’s work.
c. I have added a paragraph on trust on page 20, to further specify the authorities’ mistrust of North African migrant men.
d. I have incorporated Mayer et al.’s research on page 22.
I hope that you will find the additional revisions satisfactory and would again like to thank for your time and effort into helping me improve this paper.
Best,
The author.
Published as Mig. Pol. 1, 003 (2022)