Negotiating Identities: States and Immigrants in France and Germany Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	The War of Words	15
	On the Immigrant	16
	Boundaries of Identity or "Threshold of Tolerance"	19
	The Battle of Numbers	20
	Who Is Who?	22
	"The Right of Difference" or "Praise of Indifference"	26
	Between Assimilation and Return	30
	The Era of Communities	34
Ch. 2	Representation of Political Traditions	38
	On the Nature of Representation: An "Ideal Nation"	40
	The Search for Social Cohesion	46
	Limits of Representation	53
Ch. 3	The Territories of Identity	64
	Incompatible Equations	65
	The Ethnicization of Territory	68
	Area and Era of Tensions	72
	In Search of the Social Bond	75
Ch. 4	The Invention of the Cultural	85
	The Reappropriation of a Cultural Identity in France	86
	The Assertion of Cultural Identity in Germany	89
	"Islam Is Everywhere!"	92
Ch. 5	The Politicization of Identities in France	99
	The Emergence of New Divisions	101
	Forming a Community	106
	The Recall of the Universal	112
Ch. 6	The Politicization of Identities in Germany	117
	Religious Pluralism and Islam	119
	The Construction of an Ethnic Community	123
	Ethnic or Minority Community	128
Ch. 7	The Negotiation of Identities	140
	The Question of Citizenship	142
	A Question of Recognition	151
Ch. 8	The European Union: New Space for Negotiating Identities	164
	Universality and Particularity	165
	Transnationality and Nationality	170
	"Postnational Citizenship" and European Identity	175
	Conclusion	181
	Paradoxes	181
	The Limits of Recognition	183
	Inclusive Indifference	184
	Notes	187
	Bibliography	201
	Index	221