Foreigners in Their Own Country, Identity and Rejection in France

Author

Martin; Lawrence M.

Year

2024

Publisher

Berghahn Books

Language

English

Pages

ISBN

978-1-80539-080-0

Link

Last Update

12-Jan-2026

Keywords

Anthropology ; Sociology

Description

n July 2015, I stopped in France on the way to do research for an ethnography course I was to teach at Yale that fall. I stayed with an Airbnb host who had emigrated to France from Morocco nearly thirty years earlier, and we talked for hours. She spoke superb French, lived in a carefully maintained downtown apartment, had multiple degrees from French universities, and worked as a business consultant. Still, she had to deal with people who acted as though she did not belong in France.

Our conversations sparked a project that would continue until this book went to...