Migration, media, and stereotypes: cities in France, Europe and the Mediterranean area after 1945

EuroMedMig National Workshop organizer: URMIS, Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France.
7th March 2022

Scientific organizer:
Yvan Gastaut, Lecturer in History at Université Côte d’Azur Nice, URMIS researcher, member of GRITIM-UPF’s Steering Committee

List of experts (in alphabetical order)
• Agnès Arquez-Roth, Associate Director at the French Institute of Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration
• Azouz Begag, Writer, sociologist and former government minister
• Samia Chabani, Director of Association Ancrages
• Robert Escallier, Geographer at Université Côte d’Azur Nice
• Piero Galloro, Professor in Sociology at University of Lorraine Metz
• Yvan Gastaut, Lecturer in History at Université Côte d’Azur Nice, URMIS researcher and member of GRITIM-UPF’s Steering Committee
• Sophie Gebeil, Lecturer in Heritage of October 1961at University of Aix-Marseille
• Vincent Geisser, Researcher at CNRS and Professor at Aix-Marseille University
• Alec Hargreaves, Professor of French at Florida State University
• Céline Régnard, Lecturer in Contemporary History at Aix-Marseille University
• Pierre Sintès, Specialist in Social and Political Geography at Aix-Marseille University
• Naïma Yahi, Historian at URMIS
• Ricard Zapata-Barrero, GRITIM-UPF and Jean Monnet EuroMedMig Coordinator

The workshop and the speakers should address the main following questions:
• How to envisage cosmopolitanism in Mediterranean cities using the tools of the various social and human sciences ?
• How did Maghreb immigration and its settlement in the French society provoke an important debate about national identity?
• What is the weight of colonisation-decolonisation on France's relationship to the question of immigration ?
• How has the memory of the Algerian War (1954-62) been constructed and remains a social issue?
• Is the case of Marseille in France particular on the subject of immigration? How can the a city’s history of welcoming and current realities serve as an example?
• Why is it necessary or even essential to study stereotypes and representations in their evolution to better consider the reception of migrants ?