The French imperial legacy in the Hexagon.

Abstract

This thesis investigates the imperial legacy in the late-twentieth and early twentyfirst century French Hexagon. It focuses on three post-colonial immigrant groups: East/Southeast Asians, North Africans, and sub-Sahara Africans. It draws data from major French news sources, using both content analysis and statistical analysis of major French news sources to outline views of these groups in the French popular consciousness. Then, it uses French census data to track occupational education for each immigrant group during the latter half of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century. Finally, it uses French census data to calculate relative risk ratios for work status (unemployed, employed part-time, employed full-time) for each group in the early twenty-first century. The analyses reveal that these immigrant groups are more similar than they are different.