Abstract
France was among the pioneer states in recognizing the need to include diaspora representatives in the national parliament and instituting the necessary mechanisms to make this innovation a reality, beginning just after the end of World War II. The passage from a national to a cosmonational parliament requires new legal provisions, transborder infrastructure, and transnational agency. This chapter argues that the French Parliament has acquired a new identity with the inclusion of diaspora representation and has de facto formally relinked the diaspora to the state. In the process, it has expanded its jurisdiction by adding an extraterritorial entity to its sphere of daily legislative activities and enlarged its governance apparatus with the inclusion of diaspora legislators.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Jean Pierre Cantégrit, Les Français de 1’Etranger: La Troisième France (Paris: Economica, 1995), p. 3.
Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, Qu’est-ce Que l’Assemblée des Français de l’Etranger? (Paris: L’Archipel, 2008), p. 114.
Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, “La Représentation Parlementaire des Français de l’Etranger: 60 Ans d’Histoire Mouvementée (1944–2004),” Revue Politique et Parlementaire 106, nos. 1029–1030 (2004): 162–175;
Garriaud-Maylam, Qu’est-ce Que l’Assemblée; and Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam, “Un Pays Pionnier: La Représentation Politique des Expatriés en France,” in Loin des Yeux, Pris du Coeur: Les Etats et Leurs Expatriés, ed. Stephane Dufoix (Paris: Presses de Science Po, 2010), pp. 105–128.
L. Fulton, “Europe’s Immigrant Problem: Integrating Minority Populations,” Harvard International Review 31, no. 3 (2009): 28–33 and
Rahsaan Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
K. Martens and S. Marshall, “International Organizations and Foreign Cultural Policy: A Comparative Analysis of the British Council, the Alliance Française and the Goethe-Institute,” Transnational Associations/Associations Transnationales 55, no. 4 (2003): 261–272.
B. Gentil, “La Population Française à l’Etranger,” Futuribles 343, no. 343 (2008): 21–39.
G. De Laforcade, “‘Foreigners,’ Nationalism and the ‘Colonial Fracture’: Stigmatized Subjects of Historical Memory in France,” International Journal of Comparative Sociology 47, nos. 3–4 (2006): 217–233.
A. Dumont, “Representing Voiceless Migrants: Moroccan Political Transnationalism and Moroccan Migrants’ Organizations in France,” Ethnic and Racial Studies 31, no. 4 (2008): 792–811.
C. Wihtol de Wenden, “Kulturvermittlung Zwischen Frankreich und Algerien: Eine Transnational Brucke Zwischen Immigranten, Neuen Akteuren und Dem Maghreb [Cultural Mediators between France and Algeria: A Transnational Bridge Between Immigrants, New Actors and Maghreb],” Soziale Welt 12 (1997): 265–276.
Nancy L. Green and François Weil, eds., Citizenship and Those Who Leave: The Politics of Emigration and Expatriation (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2007).
Mark I. Choate, Emigrant Nation: The Making of Italy Abroad (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008).
J. Worms, “Crise de Légitimité des Elites Gouvernementales et Politiques Françaises et Conditions d’Une Refondation de la République,” La Revue de MAUSS 26 (2005): 105–120.
J. P. K. Shon, “Determinants of Electoral Non-Registration and Sensitive Neighborhoods in France,” Population 59, no. 1 (2004): 143–156.
R. Andersen and J. A. J. Evans, “Values, Cleavages and Party Choice in France, 1988–1995,” French Politics 1, no. 1 (2003): 83–114.
C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L’Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution (New York. Vintage, 1989).
Blanche Maurel, Saint-Domingue et la Révolution Française: Les Représentants des Colons en France de 1789 à 1795 (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1943), p. 1.
Blanche Maurel, “Un Député de Saint-Domingue à la Constituante: J. B. Gérard,” Revued’Histoire Moderne 96, no. 13, Nouvelle Série Tome 3 (May–July 1934): 227–252.
J. Saintoyant, “La Représentation Coloniale Pendant la Revolution,” Revue de l’Histoire des Colonies Françaises 17, no. 22 (1929): 355.
Sénat Français, “2ème Journée des Français de l’Etranger—Destination Monde, Samedi 1er Mars 2008,” 2009a, http:/www.senat.fr/colloques/2jfe_actes/2jfe_actes0.html#toc3 (accessed September 30, 2009).
Nicolas Sarkozy, Preface to Qu’est-ce Que l’Assemblée des Français de l’Entranger?, by Joëlle Garriaud-Maylam (Paris: L’Archipel, 2008).
Copyright information
© 2013 Michel S. Laguerre
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Laguerre, M.S. (2013). France: Diaspora Parliamentary Representation. In: Parliament and Diaspora in Europe. Europe in Transition: The NYU European Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280602_3
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137280602_3
Publisher Name: Palgrave Macmillan, New York
Print ISBN: 978-1-349-44779-4
Online ISBN: 978-1-137-28060-2
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies CollectionPolitical Science and International Studies (R0)