Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 13
5. Chapter 2. Assimilation in the French sociology of incorporation from a multicultural perspective 59
6. Chapter 3. The liberal sociology of assimilation and citizenship and its transnationalist alternatives 83
7. Transit I Proust as a witness of assimilation in 19th-century France
8. Chapter 4. Alfred Bloch’s personal integration test at the threshold of his friend’s home 117
9. Chapter 5. Stuck in a revolving door 165
10. Transit II Laïcité and assimilation in the Third Republic and today
11. Chapter 6. Elements of a critique of the laïcité-religion framework 195
12. Chapter 7. Secularism, sociology and security 225
13. Chapter 8. The highly precarious structure of assimilation 253
14. Chapter 9. Concluding remarks 275
15. Notes 297
16. Works cited 311
17. Index 333
18. Other IMISCOE Research titles 341