≪Vive la République, Vive la France≫: The Continuity of French Republicanism in the Policy and Discourse of Education and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century

Durden, Olivia

≪Vive la République, Vive la France≫: The Continuity of French Republicanism in the Policy and Discourse of Education and Immigration in the Twenty-First Century

Persistent URL

https://hdl.handle.net/10456/59253

Author(s)

Durden, Olivia

Date Issued

April 14, 2025

Abstract

In this project, I look at how the French republican model still holds true in the twenty-first century as demonstrated in the policy and discourse of French political systems. I argue that throughout the twenty-first century that French politicians have implemented a more traditional form of republicanism with a major emphasis being on integration, focusing on how immigrants must adopt French values. In the first chapter, I break down the republican model and explain republicanism, address how scholars have talked about republicanism, and talk about citizenship in France. In the second chapter, I argue how throughout the twenty-first century politicians in regards of the school have implemented a more traditional form of republicanism by taking a stronger stance of the wearing of religious symbols in the school, and I trace the current debate back to past debates about the question of secularism in the school. Lastly, in the third chapter I argue that present in the many immigration policies of the twenty-first century that notions of the republican model play a key role in the policy and discourse of political systems, such as the French Constitutional court. This project looks at policies and political discourse as it frame of analysis.

Major

International Studies

French

Honors

International Studies, 2025

World Languages and Cultures, 2025

First Reader(s)

Mattiace, Shannan