Building the border: The treatment of immigrants in France, 1884-1914

"Between 1884 and 1914, several hundred thousand male foreigners, chiefly Italian, entered unskilled occupations in France's ""dual labor market."" In French Lorraine, Italians formed an industrial labor underclass in mining and construction. This work analyzes the French response to this proletarian immigration: the construction of a citizen-foreigner border. The border was a social structure which functioned both to exclude alien workers from political and social rights and to subordinate foreigners in the labor market and the occupational hierarchy. It was formalized and reinforced by several French ""immigrant policies."" The Ministry of the Interior established special police controls over alien workers (1893) and used deportation as a tool to discourage Italian activism and upward social mobility. The Ministry of Commerce established quotas on the employment of foreign workers in the public sector (1899)."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Libet, Ludwig Victor

Contributors dc:contributor

• Schroeder, Paul W.

• History, European
• Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies
• Sociology, Social Structure and Development

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1995 Libet, Ludwig Victor

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9543652
(UMI)AAI9543652

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20446