Dominic Thomas: „Immigation and National Identity in France today“

Vortrag in englischer SpracheThe main focus of the lecture will be provided by current immigration debates inFrance, including the new Ministry for Immigration and National Identity,government policy (DNA testing, immigration “tests”), French-African relations,new museums (Musée Quai Branly and the Centre National pour l’Histoire del’Immigration), and minority advocacy groups such as the Indigènes de laRépublique and CRAN).Dominic Thomas is chair of the Department of French and FrancophoneStudies and professor of Comparative Literature at the University of CaliforniaLos Angeles. He is the author of Nation-Building, Propaganda and Literature inFrancophone Africa (Indiana University Press, 2002) and Black France:Colonialism, Immigration, and Transnationalism (Indiana University Press, 2007)Mehr Informationen über Dominic Thomashttp://www.french.ucla.edu/people/thomas.htm