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Producing citizens, reproducing the "French race": immigration, demography, and pronatalism in early twentieth-century France.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18198513     Owner:  HMD     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
This essay examines how, in the context of depopulation and mass immigration, members of the French pronatalist movement advanced a policy favouring immigrants from Italy, Spain, and Poland. Because the 'demographic crisis' created a shortage of citizens as well as workers, pronatalists held that foreign workers must also be assimilable, and able to produce French offspring. While the racial difference of colonial subjects was deemed immutable, pronatalists called for the immigration of white foreigners whose less 'modern' condition promoted fecundity, traditionalism, and gender dimorphism. Evidence is drawn from demographic studies, the press of France's largest pronatalist movement, and a pronatalist advisory committee created by the Ministry of Health in 1920.
Authors:
E Camiscioli
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Historical Article; Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Gender & history     Volume:  13     ISSN:  0953-5233     ISO Abbreviation:  Gend Hist     Publication Date:  2001  
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-01-16     Completed Date:  2008-04-02     Revised Date:  2010-06-29    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101087031     Medline TA:  Gend Hist     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  593-621     Citation Subset:  Q    
Affiliation:
State University of New York at Binghamton.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Acculturation*
Child
Child Rearing / ethnology,  history,  psychology
Child, Preschool
Emigrants and Immigrants / education,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence,  psychology
Emigration and Immigration / history,  legislation & jurisprudence
Family Planning Policy* / economics,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence
Feminism / history
France / ethnology
Government Programs / economics,  education,  ethics,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence
History, 20th Century
Humans
Infant
Marriage / ethnology,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence,  psychology
Population
Population Control / economics,  ethics,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence
Population Growth
Public Policy*
Socioeconomic Factors
Women / education,  history,  psychology
Women's Health / economics,  ethnology,  history
Women's Rights* / economics,  education,  history,  legislation & jurisprudence

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