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Tags: Annie Collovald, Arrival City, banlieues, de Gaulle, Doug Saunders, Emmanuel Todd, FN, France, immigration, Jean-Marie le Pen, Jim Wolfreys, le France des Invisibles, Le Pen, Marine le Pen, Mitterrand, National Front, neoliberalism, Peter Fysh, Racism, sarkozy, SOS Racisme, Terra Nova, Xenophobia
May 4, 2012
This is Part 2 of a post started here (Part 1) on the historical evolution on the French Right and how le Pen and the National Front got to occupy this place in French society.
So here we are: a few days before Round Two of the 2012 French presidential elections and Marine le Pen has [...]
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Would you like to work 10 hours a day, seven days a week, own 29 possessions (including 4 chopsticks and a mobile phone), live in a dormitory and be able to count with your hands the number of times you’ve been alone in the same room with your spouse?
For millions of urban migrants across the [...]
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The immigration debate has all the attributes of a barbecue stopper. Refugee advocates campaign on the necessity for compassion, whereas border vigilantes focus on deterring people smugglers and the threat on the perceived current social and economic harmony. Whilst both camps vehemently disagree, they share the strong belief of the definitive self evident nature of [...]
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