Day-to-Day Anti-Semitism in France

Abstract

For a decade, anti-Semitism has developed strongly among the immigrant population in working-class areas of France. For these people, victims of segregation and racism themselves, anti-Semitism accompanies the formation of the ghetto. As an inverse projection of the experience of a life deprived of meaning and impossible to express or to recognise for what it is, it appears to be both an instrument of unity and a demand for integration. Based on a recent empirical survey, this article sets out to analyse anti-Semitism's most day-to-day manifestations, its ordinary vocabulary and its general political expressions.