A. Vanzanten, SCHOOLING IMMIGRANTS IN FRANCE IN THE 1990S - SUCCESS OR FAILURE OF THE REPUBLICAN MODEL OF INTEGRATION, Anthropology & education quarterly, 28(3), 1997, pp. 351-374
The perception and treatment of immigrants in French society have been
strongly influenced by an ideology of integration known as the Republ
ican model, a model that relies on state institutions and particularly
on schools for its transmission. Analysis of the schooling of immigra
nts in the 1990s reveals that the enforcement of this model is still p
roducing the desired manifestations of cultural assimilation, but that
it has become much less effective in promoting the social and economi
c integration of immigrant groups. As a result, competing alternative
models, especially neoliberal ones, might progressively play a central
role.