Citizenship and Belonging in France and North America

Ramona Mielusel is Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Simona Emilia Pruteanu is Associate Professor of French in the Department of Languages and Literatures at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

• 1. Introduction: The Realities of Multicultural Societies.- Part I: Citizenship and Integration: Espousing or CombatingOfficial Political Discourses on Multiculturalism and National Identity.- 2. Nationalistic Secularism and the Critique of Canadian Multiculturalism in Quebec.- 3. Francophones, Multiculturalism and Interculturalism in Canada, Québec and Europe.- 4. The Regulation of Migration, Integration, and of Multiculturalism in Twenty-First-Century France.- 5. Representing French Citizenship and Belonging in La Desintégration (2011) by Philippe Faucon.- Part II: How Can One BeMuslim, Immigrant and French? Literary and Cinematic Expressions of Belonging in France and Québec.- 6. Redefining Frenchness: Thomté Ryam’s Banlieue Noire and En attendant que le bus explose.- 7. The Integration of Muslim Maghrebis into Quebec: France as the Model not to Follow.- 8. Feminist Citizenship in the Banlieue: Houda Benyamina’s Divines (2016).- 9. “Let me explain: This is who I am”: Interview with Anita Aloisio with Introduction by Dervila Cooke.- Part III Framing Identity and Nationality: Crimmigration, Islamophobia and the Politics of Ethnic Exclusion.- 10. Shy Elitism:  A New Keyword in Critical Multiculturalism Studies.- 11. On the Islamophobic Mind and Its Agenda in France.- 12. Framing the Immigration Discourse and Drawing the Citizen: Concrete Representations of the “Migration Crisis” in Comics Journalism.- 13. Navigating Diversity: Multiculturalism as a Heuristic.