Dissertation Research: Cultural Identity and Political Struggles: Antillean Migrants and Ethnicity in France

本论文的研究项目将通过研究来自法属安的列斯群岛的移民如何促进他们在法国的民族认同来研究多元民族国家中的民族认同问题。该项目调查政治合法性(特别是公民身份)与民族独立的防御性主张之间的关系。文化人类学专业的一名学生将对法国的安的列斯移民进行为期一年的研究，研究方法包括人种学访谈、参与者观察和查阅有关安的列斯和其他移民文化组织的档案。公民身份、种族、阶级和文化合法性或“法国”的相互作用将被分析，因为它们影响到群体在防御性民族独立活动中的活动。学生还将通过在安的列斯群岛的实地考察来学习移民组织的总部。这项研究之所以重要，是因为族裔移民在所有国家都是一个现实，如果要制定满足合法目标的政策，对促使族裔群体抗议其民族文化独立的问题的基本社会科学理解是越来越重要的事实。

This dissertation research project will investigate the issue of ethnic identity in pluralistic nation-states by studying how migrants from French Antilles promote their ethnic identity in France. The project investigates how political legitimacy (in particular, citizenship) relates to defensive claims of ethnic independence. A student in cultural anthropology will study Antillean migrants in France for a year, using ethnographic interviews, participant observation and consulting archives on Antillean and other immigrant cultural organizations. The interaction of citizenship, race, class and cultural legitimacy or "Frenchness" will be analyzed as they impact the groups' activities in defensive ethnic independence activities. The student will also study the home base of the immigrant organizations through fieldwork in the Antilles. This research is important because ethnic group immigration is a fact of life in all countries, and an increasing fact in the Basic social-scientific understanding of the issues that impels ethnic groups to protest their ethnic-cultural independence is important if policies are to be formulated that satisfy legitimate goals.