by Harvetta and reviewed by Henry Crapo
Christophe Bertossi is a researcher at the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI). He manages the "Migrations, Identity, Citizenship" program.
Huma: In his televised broadcast, Sarkozy spoke about the failure of multiculturalism, referring to England and Germany. Can we say it has failed?
Christophe Bertossi: First, for any multiculturalism crisis to exist in France would first require multiculturalism but there is no multiculturalism in the French reality. In discourse, ideas, even in practice, "integration" is the reality, with all of its inherent contradictions...[continued]
