Fransa'da göçmen sorunu: Anti-kolonyal mücadelelerden kent ayaklanmalarına sınıf fraksiyonlarının oluşumu

This study has basically two theses: first, it claims that the problems that often come into the public debate in France related to the immigrants issued from the countries of the Maghreb and Sub-Sahara and to their descendants of second and third generations can be identified under the rubric of 'immigrant question'. It does not rely upon the narrower legal definition of immigrant in the French law which accepts most of the descendants as French citizens and not as immigrants on the grounds that they were born on the French soil; instead, regardless their legal status of citizenship, it approaches the immigrants and their descendants under the same social category of immigrant through the phenomenon of cultural transmission between generations. Second, it claims that the immigrant question as such derives not essentially from the peculiarities of the French Republican model and the French social formation but from the capitalist mode of production which implies those peculiarities, and that the question, accordingly, has in fact a profound class character as regards the immigrants and their descendants that are in the scope of this study.