Introduction: The realities of multicultural societies

Abstract

This volume offers a critical assessment of the ways in which current filmmakers, authors, policy-makers, and politicians from France and North America discuss notions of citizenship and belonging in the context of worldwide changing views on multicultural societies, national identities, and immigration policies. The 12 peer-reviewed chapters establish a dialogue between countries and disciplines in search of such discursive illustrations and/or opposing discourses regarding recent immigration policies, political and cultural crisis, views on terrorism, and Islamophobia. In addition, the authors are interested in spotlighting different stereotypes and perceptions of the phenomenon from both sides of the spectrum: civic society and policy-makers on the one hand and the Other (regular and undocumented immigrants, refugees, Beurs, female migrants, and Black minorities).