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4 octobre 2019
- handle: 10670/1.8ef4ea
- isbn: 978-3-030-18987-7
- hal: hal-03265864
- doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18987-7_2
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Damien de Blic et al., « Undocumented Families and Political Communites: Parents Fighting Depotations », HAL-SHS : sciences politiques, ID : 10.1007/978-3-030-18987-7_2
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In early 2000, the hardening of immigration laws in France threatened many undocumented foreigners with deportation. Among these foreigners, many had children educated in French schools. Facing this situation, parents of pupils set up a network in 2004 (“Réseau Education Sans Frontières” [RESF], still active today), to denounce the deportation of young children, prevent these evictions and regularise the status of the endangered families. This chapter aims to analyse the original critical register developed by these militants. Reluctant to use overly general political categories to defend the undocumented immigrants, they want to first show that they are an integral part of local communities. Support committees are anchored in a local environment and the network gives national visibility to the issue of “undocumented families”. Thus the RESF activists are not building a cause in the usual way, by detaching individual cases from local and contingent situations but, conversely, by relying on their singularity and irreducibility. The political fight consists here in showing that legal and administrative criteria are not enough to define membership and integration: the inclusion in the life of the neighbourhood or school offers an alternative definition of political community.