Nationality, a authorized building depiated by “deliberate review” | EUROtoday

Review of magazines. Because nationality has develop into a bitter political battlefield, Deliberatethe evaluation of “Critical reflection” of the magistracy union, selected, in its March concern (N^o 24, “Terminals of nationality”, La Découverte, 96 pages, 12 euros), to discover the a number of sides of this authorized building which dates from the top of the nineteenth century^e century.

“Would there be nationals more national than others ?, she wonders. This is in any case what a certain political discourse wants to be overflowing on the fear of the other, a foreigner or not completely French, or not so much, or not in appearances. »»

Vichy is the regime that went the fark in this political instrumentalization of nationality: as early as 1940, a law imposed the ” revision ” of all the naturalizations that have occurred since 1927. Claire Zalc, research director at the CNRS, traces the history of the commission responsible for these “Denaturalizations” who have formed, for many Jews, the anteroom of the deportation. The magistrates who were members, she notes, participated in the “Extermination machine” set up by Vichy.

Restrictive policies

Claire Zalc’s meticulous work has the merit of highlighting the room for maneuvering each of these magistrates, and therefore the “Possible number of” collaboration arts “” :: “There are different ways to obey orders, bypass possibilities, adaptations to constraints which largely depend on individual socializations. »» Some judges have thus proposed maintenance in nationality in 25 % of files, others in 93 % of cases.

Eighty years later, nationality remains a “Tool to designate those that have the fitting to be on the territory” – And it is at the heart of increasingly restrictive policies. Since decolonizations, and even more since the years 1980-1990, the “certificates of nationality” which allow to provide proof of his French nationality have become so difficult to obtain that they participate, underlines the lawyer Emilien Fargues in Deliberateto the “Administrative manufacturing unit of” non -French “amongst people who thought themselves French by regulation”.

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