Abstract
In France, the emergence of the issue of ‘diversity’ since the 2000s has deeply renewed public debates around racial and ethnic discriminations. Tracing the debates that appeared in this context around ‘diversity statistics’ and the possibility of integrating racial and/or ethnic data in the national census, this essay aims at delineating the conflicting universalisms that shape different positions around a ‘race issue’ that France alternatively engages with and blissfully ignores. By tracking the trends and changes in public lexicons, in the mediated public sphere as well as in institutional language, through an approach inspired by E. Laclau and C. Mouffe’s Discourse Theory and S. Hall’s theory of articulation, it describes competing notions of citizenship in the French context and presents a critical analysis of the current public redefinitions of antidiscrimination policies.
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