As French as Everyone Else?

France is often depicted as the model of assimilationist or republican integration in the international literature on immigration. However, rarely have surveys drilled down to provide individual responses from a double representative sample. In As French as Everyone Else?, Sylvain Brouard and Vincent Tiberj provide a comprehensive assessment of the state of integration in France and challenge the usual crisis of integration by systematically comparing the "new French" immigrants, as well as their children and grandchildren born in France, with a sample of the French general population. The authors' survey considers a wide range of topics, including religious affiliation and religiosity, political attitudes and political efficacy, value systems (including gender roles, work ethics, and anti-Semitism), patterns of integration, multiple identities and national belongings, and affirmative action. As the authors show, despite existing differences, immigrants of Maghrebin, African, and Turkish origin share a wide scope of commonality with other French citizens

Foreword to the English Edition by Paul M. Sniderman; A Note on the Translation; Foreword to the French Edition by Pascal Perrineau; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why This Question?; 1. Are the New French More Religious and Less Laïque?; All Muslims?; Are Muslims More Religious?; Can We Speak of a Re-Islamization in France?; Islam Is Not Part of a Retreat from French Society; Laïcité: A Danger to or Protection for Muslims?; Church and State Relations; 2. Integration into the French Political System; Confidence in French Democracy; Political Preoccupations

An Alignment with the Left Leftist Chiracians?; Religion and Political Orientation; 3. A Welfare Culture?; Liberty or Equality; Acceptance of the Rules of the Economy; Attitudes toward the Role of the State; Work and Success; An Omnipresent Culture of Material Success; Immigration, a Culture of Success; 4. Women, Mores, and Homosexuality; The Less Authoritarian French; A France That Is Uncertain about Moral Order; No More Lax, No More Authoritarian; The More Conservative French; A Lower Level of Sexual Permissiveness; A Lower Level of Permissiveness in Most Social Groups

Religion and Permissiveness Consequences of Lower Sexual…