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How can the needs of ethno-cultural and religious diversity be accommodated within the French République?1 Formally, the ideological project of French citizenship provides a sharp solution: the transformation of individuals into universal citizens parallels the melting of social, cultural, and religious identities into a common national identity. In other words, French citizenship has been founded on the fiction that equality is possible insofar as it is based on a common belonging to the post-revolutionary nation and it erodes all forms of ethnicity pre-existing the nation-state (Gellner, 1983).
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Bertossi, C. (2007). Ethnicity, Islam, and Allegiances in the French Military. In: Bertossi, C. (eds) European Anti-Discrimination and the Politics of Citizenship. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627314_10
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