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Saskia Bonjour, Sébastien Chauvin (2018)Social Class, Migration Policy and Migrant Strategies: An Introduction This introduction traces class at the interface between migration policy and migrant strategies. Scholarship on the politics of migration and citizenship has thus far largely neglected class. In contrast, we contend that discourses on migration, integration and citizenship are inevitably classed. Assessed through seemingly heterogeneous criteria of “merit” and “performance”, class serves as an analytical connector between economic and identity rationales which intersect in all migration policies, including those regulating family and humanitarian admission. Class-selective policy frames can function as constraints maintaining some aspiring migrants into immobility or channeling different groups of migrants into separate and unequal incorporation routes. Yet, policy frames can also serve as resources to strategize with as migrants navigate and perform gendered and classed expectations embedded into receiving-country migration regimes. We conclude that connecting policy with migrant strategies is key to reintroducing class without naturalizing classed strategies of mobility. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Yannick Coenders, Timo Koren (2018)Never Having Been Racist: Explaining the Blackness of Blackface in the Netherlands Forthcoming in Public Culture 30(3), 2018 The accusation that Black Pete – the blackface character at the center of the annual Sinterklaas festival – is a racist caricature has recently become a staple of the Dutch culture wars, leaving media and cultural producers in a quandary over the figure’s meaning and fate. This essay focuses on two recent seasons of the widely popular children’s television program Sinterklaasjournaal. Continue reading |
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Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien chauvin, Nicolas Jounin, Lucie Tourette (2016)State categories and labour protest: Migrant workers and the fight for legal status in France. Work, employment and society 30(4), 2016. *** Article awarded the 2017 British Sociological Association Prize for Work, Employment & Society *** From 2008 to 2010, with the support of a coalition of trade unions and immigrant rights groups under the leadership of the Confédération Générale du Travail (CGT), thousands of France’s undocumented migrant workers conducted strikes and occupied their workplaces, demanding that their employers use a recently voted law to sponsor their regularisation applications. Unheard of in French migration and labour histories, the mobilisation broke with earlier ways of fighting for legal status. |
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Yannick Coenders, Sébastien Chauvin (2017)Antipode: A radical journal of geography, vol.49, n.5, 2017 Anti-racist critique often meets with dismissive professions of colour-blindness and blanket refusals to consider change. This article discusses how anti-racism can also be disarmed through concessions that deny racist bias but claim to be merely accommodating the irrational feelings of oversensitive racial others. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas (2014)Becoming Less Illegal: Deservingness Frames and Undocumented Migrant IncorporationSociology Compass 8(4): 422-432 Over the last two decades, research on unauthorized migration has departed from the equation of migrant illegality with absolute exclusion, emphasizing that formal exclusion typically results in subordinate inclusion. Irregular migrants integrate through informal support networks, the underground economy, and political activities. But they also incorporate into formal institutions, either through policy divergence between levels of government, bureaucratic sabotage or fraud. The incorporation of undocumented migrants involves not so much invisibility as camouflage – presenting the paradox that camouflage improves with integration. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin (2017)Possibility, Legitimacy, and the New Ontologies of Choice: A Comment on Brubaker. Ethnic and Racial Studies 40(8), 2017. In Trans: Gender and Race in the Age of Unsettled Identities (Princeton UP, 2016), Rogers Brubaker makes a major argument about the contentious politics of the contemporary self. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin (2015)La rue, l’agence et le centre de travailleurs : Sociologie et sociétés, vol. XLVII, n°1, printemps 2015, p. 19-46. Suffit-il de formaliser le travail précaire pour le déprécariser ? Réponse empirique avec cinq études de cas américaines. Cet article analyse le système d’allocation des emplois dans le travail journalier aux États-Unis, dont la main d’œuvre est fréquemment composée de migrants hispaniques sans papiers. |
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Bruno Cousin, Sébastien Chauvin (2014)Globalizing forms of elite sociability: Varieties of cosmopolitanism in Paris social clubs.Ethnic and Racial Studies, 37(12): 2209-2225. This article examines the cultivation of transnational connections, cosmopolitanism and global class consciousness among members of elite social clubs in Paris. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Alexandre Jaunait (2015)L’intersectionnalité contre l’intersectionRaisons Politiques, 15(2): 55-74. Is the notion of intersectionality doomed to being part of the problem it depicts? Intersectionality theory was not developed to merely point at intersections but to capture subject positions made invisible by dominant systems of normative representation. Continue reading |
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Sebastien Chauvin (2014)“Chicago et l’exception urbaine américaine”. Review of: Andrew Diamond, Pap Ndiaye, Histoire de Chicago. Paris: Fayard, 2013. La Vie des idées, December 2014. ISSN : 2105-3030. URL : http://www.laviedesidees.fr/Chicago-et-l-exception-urbaine.html |
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Sebastien Chauvin (2013)Revue française de science politique 63(2): 417-420.
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Sebastien Chauvin (2010)Review of: Michel Lallement, Le travail. Une sociologie contemporaine. Paris, Gallimard, 2007 Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales 65(3): 856-858.
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Sebastien Chauvin (2013)Critique Internationale 58(1): 181-185.
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Sebastien Chauvin (2008)Review of: Lilian Mathieu, La condition prostituée. Paris: Textuel, 2007. Revue française de sociologie, 49(3): 652-655.
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Olga Sezneva, Sébastien Chauvin (2014)Has Capitalism Gone Virtual? Content Containment and the Obsolescence of the CommodityCritical Historical Studies 1(1): 125-150. Drawing on debates over the alleged virtualization of capitalism, this article examines how recent strategies of commodification have responded to challenges posed by digital and other self-reproducing contents. Using the examples of digitized cultural goods, plant patenting and online gaming, the paper argues that challenges to commodification have not come from intangibility per se but from forms of physical inscription associated with negligible costs of reproduction, sharing and transmission. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Blanca Garcés-Mascareñas (2012)Beyond Informal Citizenship: The New Moral Economy of Migrant IllegalityInternational Political Sociology 6(3): 241-259. Over the past decades, citizenship studies have explored in detail the various forms of social and civic integration achieved by otherwise illegal residents in contemporary immigration countries. While a great deal of analysis has tended to rest on a dichotomy between formal exclusion on the one hand and informal incorporation on the other, recent studies have begun questioning this dualistic model by examining the formal circuits of incorporation followed by unauthorized denizens at various geographical and institutional levels. Continue reading |
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Sebastien Chauvin (2009/2014)Waiting for Papers: The Bridled Affiliation of Irregular Migrants in the United StatesPolitix English edition, 87(2): 47-69 Original French version published in 2009. In the United States as elsewhere, the lack of legal documents plays a key role in irregular migrants’ precarious condition. The characteristics of the American immigration system nevertheless allow the undocumented to enjoy rights that contrast with the more suppressive systems of Western Europe. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Blanca Garcés-MascareÑAS, Albert Kraler (2013)Employment and Migrant DeservingnessInternational Migration 51(6): 80-85. The past 15 years have seen a growing number of studies investigating how migrants’ legal status affects their employment. Typically, this literature tends to view legal restrictions, conditions and opportunities as parts of a wider political opportunity structure circumscribing migrants’ agency and their ability to secure gainful employment. But the reverse question – the effects of employment on residential legality – has hardly been broached. Continue reading |
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Bruno Cousin, Sébastien Chauvin (2012)L’économie symbolique du capital social.
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Sebastien Chauvin (2014)Revue française de science politique 64(5): 990-992.
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Alexandre Jaunait, Sebastien Chauvin (2012)Representing the Intersection in France and America: Theories of Intersectionality Meet Social Science.Revue Française de Science Politique (English-language edition), 62(1): 1-15. This article retraces the comparative genealogy of intersectionality theory in the United States and in France since the 1970s, insisting on the heritage of Marxist thought in French Materialistic feminism. We describe how its appropriation in social scientific inquiry allowed reformulating what were normative problems specific to the politico-juridical sphere, into principles of empirical investigation. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin, Blanca Garcés-MascareÑAS, Albert Kraler (2013)Working for Legality: Employment and Migrant Regularization in Europe.International Migration 51(6): 118-131. Czech version (migraceonline.cz): Prací za legalitou pobytu: Zaměstnání a regularizace migrantů v Evropě. Recent programs to regularize undocumented migrants suggest the increasing role of employment as a requirement for foreigners to legally reside in Europe. Continue reading |
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Bruno Cousin, Sebastien Chauvin (2012)L’entre-soi élitaire à Saint-BarthélemyEthnologie Française, 42(2), 335-345. |
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Pierre Barron, Anne Bory, Sébastien CHauvin, Lucie Tourette (2010)L’intérim en grève: la mobilisation des travailleurs sans papiers intérimaires.“La notion de grève suppose qu’il s’agisse de salariés de l’entreprise, ce qui n’est établi par aucune pièce et est invérifiable dès lors qu’à chacune des interventions de l’huissier (constats et significations) les occupants ont refusé de décliner leur identité ou ont donné des noms de fantaisie (14 des assignés à cette audience ayant tous déclaré se nommer « Bernard Thibault »).” — Ordonnance de référé, TGI d’Orléans, 1er décembre 2009 — Continue reading |
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Bruno Cousin, Sebastien Chauvin (2010)La dimension symbolique du capital social:
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Sebastien Chauvin (2009)En attendant les papiers: L’affiliation bridée des migrants irréguliers aux États-UnisPolitix, 87(2): 47-69 Aux États-Unis comme ailleurs, l’absence de papiers légitimes joue un rôle-clé dans la précarité des migrants irréguliers. Les caractéristiques du régime d’illégalité étatsunien permettent toutefois aux sans-papiers d’y jouir de droits de citoyenneté qui tranchent avec les régimes plus répressifs d’Europe occidentale. Continue reading |
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Sebastien Chauvin (2011)Comment on écrit l’histoire du genreReview of: Michèle Riot-Sarcey (ed.), De la différence des sexes. Le genre en histoire. Paris: Larousse, 2010. Revue française de science politique, 61(5): 971-974. |
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ASPLAN (2009)Travailleurs sans papiers: la précarité interditeLes Mondes du Travail 7:49-60. En réponse aux critères restrictifs imposés par le gouvernement, qui réaffirment paradoxalement une norme d’emploi standard au moment même où se poursuit la politique néolibérale de fragilisation des salariés sur le marché du travail, les grèves de travailleurs sans papiers se sont d’abord appuyées sur les salariés les plus intégrés présentant les propriétés les plus « légitimes ». Continue reading |
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Alexandre Jaunait, Sebastien Chauvin (2012)Représenter l’intersection.
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Sébastien Chauvin (2007)Sociologie pratiques 15: 41-54. L’article présente les modes d’action et de fonctionnement d’un « worker center » de Chicago, groupe associatif ayant pour objet la mobilisation et la défense de travailleurs journaliers américains précaires. Continue reading |
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Sebastien Chauvin (2003)Review of: Norbert Elias, The Society of Individuals, Basil Blackwell, 1991
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Mathieu Bonzom, Sébastien Chauvin (2007)Les sans-papiers dans les rues étatsuniennes : retour sur les mouvement immigré du Printemps 2006.La vie des idées 19 (2007): 67-79. Des manifestations gigantesques à l’ampleur inégalée dans l’histoire américaine, des familles entières défilant pacifiquement dans les rues des grandes villes du pays, des milliers de bannières étoilées agitées devant les caméras de télévision du monde entier au-dessus de foules à la peau foncée : les marches historiques pour les droits des immigrés sans-papiers qui ont marqué le printemps 2006 aux Etats-Unis ont été notées par tous comme un événement sans réel précédent sur le plan quantitatif. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin (2005)Les aventures d’une “alliance objective”. Quelques moments de la relation entre mouvements homosexuels et mouvements féministes au XXe siècleL’homme et la société, 158(4): 111-130. Les relations entre mouvements féministes et mouvements homosexuels se sont nourries des rhétoriques politiques dominantes de chaque période : l’individualisme libéral dans l’Allemagne de 1904, le gauchisme libérationniste dans la France des années 1970, puis, dans une certaine mesure, le discours des « droits » dans les années 1990, à la fois épaulé et concurrencé, dans les années 2000, par un nouveau radicalisme « queer » qui offre aux féministes et aux militants homosexuels au moins autant de nouveaux points de convergence que de nouvelles occasions de conflit. Continue reading |
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Sébastien Chauvin (2003)Pour une critique bienveillante de la notion de “minorité”. Le cas des minorités sexuelles.Contretemps n°7, mai 2003, p. 26-38.
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