National identities and transnational intimacies: Sexual democracy and the politics of immigration in Europe

Public Culture

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 507-529

  Fassin, Éric ^a  

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EID: 78649398833     PISSN: 08992363     EISSN: 15278018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/08992363-2010-007     Document Type: Article

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1. On the Dutch context, see Ian Buruma, Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance (New York: Penguin, 2006).
2. Rama Yade's comments, along with Hirsi Ali's, are to be found in "Menacée pour ses critiques de l'islam radical, Ayaan Hirsi Ali demande la nationalité française" ("Threatened Because of Her Criticism of Radical Islam, Ayaan Hirsi Ali Asks for French Citizenship"), Le Monde, February 11, 2008.
3. Bernard-Henri Lévy, "Adresse à Nicolas Sarkozy à propos d'Ayaan Hirsi Ali" ("An Address to Nicolas Sarkozy concerning Ayaan Hirsi Ali"), Libération, February 11, 2008.
4. Jytte Klausen, The Cartoons That Shook the World (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2009).
5. Samuel P. Huntington, "The Clash of Civilizations?" Foreign Affairs 72 (1993): 22 - 49.
6. Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, "The True Clash of Civilizations," Foreign Policy 135 (2003): 65.
7. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, "Can the Subaltern Speak? Speculations on Widow Sacrifice," in her A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999), 284.
8. Florence Aubenas and Christophe Boltanski, "'On m'a jetée à la poubelle': Entretien avec Ayaan Hirsi Ali" (" 'I Have Been Dumped in the Trash': Interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali"), Nouvel Observateur, February 14, 2008.
9. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Harvey Mansfield, "Is Courage a Masculine Virtue?" American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, On the Issues, no. 8 (2009), www.aei.org/docLib/08%20OTI%20Mansfield-Hirsi-g. pdf.
10. Hirsi Ali and Mansfield, "Is Courage," 3.
11. Hirsi Ali and Mansfield, "Is Courage," 4.
12. Hirsi Ali and Mansfield, "Is Courage," 4.
13. Hirsi Ali and Mansfield, "Is Courage," 4.
14. See "Le sexe de l'immigration" ("The Sex of Immigration"), in Cette France-là 1 (2009): 118 - 27, www.cettefrancela.net/volume-1/descriptions/article/le-sexe-de-l-immigration.
15. Nicolas Sarkozy quote from Annick Cojean, "Ayaan Hirsi Ali en quête d'une protection et d'une nationalité" ("Ayaan Hirsi Ali in Search of Protection and a Citizenship"), Le Monde, February 12, 2008.
16. Nicolas Sarkozy's presidential campaign video, www.dailymotion.com/video/x1qz2d_1 -identite-nationale (accessed July 20, 2010).
17. Éric Fassin, "The Rise and Fall of Sexual Politics in the Public Sphere: A Transatlantic Comparison," Public Culture 18 (2006): 79 - 92.
18. Éric Fassin, "Sexual Violence at the Border," differences 18 (2007): 1 - 23.
19. See the photographs and presentation at "L'Assemblée nationale, ultime étape de la Marche des femmes des quartiers contre les ghettos et pour l'égalité" ("The March of Women from the Projects against Ghettos and for Equality"), July 12, 2003, www.assemblee-nationale. fr/evenements/mariannes.asp.
20. Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2007).
21. On this argument, see Éric Fassin, "La démocratie sexuelle et le conflit des civilisations" ("Sexual Democracy and the Clash of Civilizations"), in "Postcolonial et politique de l'histoire" ("Postcolonialism and the Politics of History"), special issue, Multitudes, no. 26 (2006): 123 - 31.
22. Éric Fassin, "A Double-Edged Sword: Sexual Democracy, Gender Norms, and Racialized Rhetoric," in In Terms of Gender, ed. Judith Butler and Elizabeth Weed (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, forthcoming.
23. Judith Butler, "Sexual Politics, Torture, and Secular Time," British Journal of Sociology 59 (2008): 1 - 23.
24. Heribert Prantl, "Alle Muslime sind verdächtig," Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 29, 2006, www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/baden-wuerttemberg-alle-muslime-sind-verdaechtig-1.785482.
25. See the description of the film Coming to the Netherlands at Naar Nederland, www.naarnederland.nl/documentenservice/pagina.asp?pagkey=53774 (accessed July 21, 2010).
26. Éric Fassin, "Going Dutch," Bidoun: Arts and Culture from the Middle East 10 (2007): 62 - 63. It is worth noting that while the "explicit" pictures from the DVD are reproduced as illustrations in my article in Bidoun, they have been blurred - to escape the risk of censorship in Muslim countries, though at the risk of justifying the Dutch government's stereotypes. The deliberate irony of my piece, encouraged by the magazine's editor, is thus rendered more complex by the unintended irony of this editorial decision.
27. Peter van der Veer, "Pim Fortuyn, Theo van Gogh, and the Politics of Tolerance in the Netherlands," Public Culture 18 (2006): 120.
28. On the political television show J'ai une question à vous poser (I Have a Question to Ask You), TF1, February 5, 2007, lci.tf1.fr/politique/2007-02/sarkozy-concret-face-aux-francais-4886393. html.
29. Éric Fassin, "Same Sex, Different Politics: Comparing and Contrasting 'Gay Marriage' Debates in France and the United States," Public Culture 13 (2001): 215 - 32.
30. Nicolas Sarkozy speech in St. John Lateran, December 20, 2007, www.elysee.fr/president/les-actualites/discours/2007/allocution-de-m-le-president-de-la-republique. 7012.html?search=Latran.
31. Pope Benedict XVI speech, Paris, September 12, 2008, www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2008/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20080912_parigi-elysee_fr.html.
32. Pope Benedict XVI speech, Regensburg, September 12, 2006, www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/speeches/2006/september/documents/hf_ben-xvi_spe_20060912_university-regensburg_en.html.
33. Éric Fassin, "The Geopolitics of Vatican Theology," Public Culture 19 (2007): 233 - 37.
34. Nicolas Sarkozy speech, Riyadh, January 14, 2008, www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2008/04/24/discours-de-nicolas-sarkozy-a-riyad-le-14-janvier-2008_1038207_823448.html.
35. Interview with Nicolas Sarkozy, "The Long Coat of Churches," Figaro, April 28, 2007.
36. Nicolas Sarkozy speech, La-Chapelle-en-Vercors, November 12, 2009, www.elysee.fr/president/les-actualites/discours/2009/discours-de-m-le-president-de-la-republique. 1678.html.
37. Nicolas Sarkozy speech before Parliament, Versailles, June 22, 2009, www.elysee.fr/president/les-actualites/declarations/2009/declaration-devant-le-parlement-reuni-en-congres. 5522.html.
38. Éric Fassin, "Entre famille et nation: La filiation naturalisée" ("Between Family and Nation: The Naturalization of Filiation"), Droit et société, no. 72 (2009): 373 - 82.
39. Letter quoted in Cette France-là 2 (2008 - 2009): 144.
40. On this story, see Éric Fassin, "Mohamed et Fatma: Immigration subie et mères suspectes" ("Mohamed and Fatma: Unwelcome Immigration and Suspicious Mothers"), Regards, no. 55 (October 2008), www.regards.fr/article/?id=3540&q=author:699.
41. Didier Fassin, "The Mystery Child: Politics of Reproduction; Between National Imaginaries and Transnational Confrontations," in Reproduction, Globalization, and the State: New Theoretical and Ethnographic Perspectives, ed. Carol H. Browner and Carolyn Sargent (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
42. See Judith Surkis, "Hymenal Politics: Marriage, Secularism, and French Sovereignty," in this issue.
43. See Abdellali Hajjat, "Assimilation et naturalisation: Socio-histoire d'une injonction d'État" ("Assimilation and Naturalization: Social History of a State Injunction") (PhD diss., L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2009), 279 - 82.
44. "Une Marocaine en burqa se voit refuser la nationalité française" ("A Burkha-Clad Moroccan Woman Is Denied French Citizenship"), Le Monde, July 11, 2008.
45. The first cartoon is by Pessin, Le Monde, July 11, 2008.
46. The other, by Maëster, online, July 22, 2008, maester.over-blog.com/article-21420168.html.
47. Transcript available at www.u-m-p.org/site/index.php/s_informer/discours/grand_meeting_des_jeunes_avec_nicolas_sarkozy.
48. 'Nos' familles choisies, 'leurs' familles subies" (" 'Our' Families of Choice, 'Their' Families Not Chosen"), Cette France-là 2 (2008 - 9): 109.
49. "'Nos' familles choisies," 109.
50. Quoted in Alexis Spire's ethnographic investigation of the immigration bureaucracy, Accueillir ou reconduire: Les "guichets" de l'immigration (Paris: Raisons d'agir, 2008), 82.
51. See the Web site of the Mouvement de couples mixtes pour la défense du droit de mener une vie familiale, amoureuxauban.net (accessed May 13, 2010).
52. La Cimade along with Les Amoureux au ban public, "Peu de meilleur et trop de pire: Soupçonnés, humiliés, réprimés, des couples mixtes témoignent" ("Too Little for Better, Too Much for Worse: Suspected, Humiliated, Repressed Binational Couples Give Their Testimonies"), April 2008, www.cimade.org/publications/15.
53. Quotes are from daily articles in the local paper, Ouest-France (Sarthe edition), October 18 - 24.
54. Ouest-France, October 18 - 24.
55. "Arménien san papiers: La lettre au Président" ("Armenian without Papers: The Letter from the President"), Ouest-France, October 24, 2008, www.lemans.maville.com/actu/actudet_ -Armenien-sans-papier-la-lettre-au-President-_dep-728909_actu.htm.