Vincent Latour – Toulouse Jean Jaurès University
Keywords
politics, migration, cultural identities
Abstract
It will be the aim of this comparative presentation to analyse and contextualise the fractures generated in both the UK and France by ‘identity politics’, stemming from the rise of cultural identities over the last two decades. In recent years, these divides have become increasingly blatant on both sides of the Channel across the political spectrum, within academia or indeed, amongst ethnic minority groups, sometimes in strikingly similar ways. This talk will investigate and document this trend and will possibly allow us to nuance the cleavages between these two ethnically diverse, liberal democracies, frequently described as being at odds with one another regarding diversity governance.