LA PAROLE IMMIGREE - LES MIGRANTS AFRICAINS DANS L'ESPACE PUBLIC EN FRANCE (1960-1995)

The "Sub-Saharan" history of African immigration has been inadequately investigated: few post-colonial empire historians or sociologists have had any interest in it. Relying upon previously unpublished archives, La Parole immigrée strives to break this silence by retracing the paths taken by community leaders and union activists, drawing sociological portraits of lawyers and comedians, and by deciphering the role played by African migrants within the French public sphere, from the optimism of The Suns of Independence to the “sans papier” [illegal immigrants without papers] movement protests.
The extent to which migrant can voice their opinions within the French public sphere depends, on one hand, upon the strategies developed by the African governments – in collusion with the French State – to marginalise the demands of “immigrants” in the former colonial mother country and, on the other hand, upon the discriminatory rhetoric which has devalued African immigration from top to bottom in France, thereby producing rationale favouring their public stigmatisation.
African and French societies thus share a common history which migrant voices are rhetorically constructing, weaving the web of their sufferings, their victories and their gratitude.

A former Fulbright Fellow at UC-Berkeley, Jean-Philippe Dedieu is a graduate of the École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales (ESSEC) who earned his PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). He is a member of the EHESS's Institut de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les enjeux sociaux (Iris). His research focuses on the history and political sociology of African migrations. He has taught at the EHESS, the ENS and at Sciences Po Paris.

Historien de la rhétorique, Philippe-Joseph Salazar est actuellement titulaire d'une distinguished chair de rhétorique à l'université du Cap (Afrique du Sud) après avoir été doyen et directeur de programme (« Rhétorique et démocratie ») au Collège international de philosophie (Paris).

Il a publié, chez d'autres éditeurs, An African Athens. Rhetoric and the Shaping of Democracy in South Africa (LEA, 2002 – http://www.taylorandfrancis.com/), Amnistier l'Apartheid (Seuil, 2004), Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa (New Africa Books, 2007) (http://www.newafricabooks.co.za/books_detail.asp?ID=682 ) et parmi son travail éditorial, on se reportera, pour illustrer deux autres champs d'application de sa réflexion sur la rhétorique, à François de La Mothe Le Vayer, De la patrie et des étrangers (Desjonquères, 2003) et à The Rhetorical Shape of International Conflicts (The Public, XII, 4, 2005).

Il est le lauréat 2008 du prix de la Fondation Oppenheimer (Oppenheimer Memorial - http://www.rhetoricafrica.org/awards.asp

Voir aussi : http://www.uct.ac.za/dailynews/?id=7040

Il co-dirige des projets internationaux sur la rhétorique et la politique en Hongrie, Norvège, Pologne, Roumanie, Suède et en direction de l'Afrique du Nord.