Pierre Bourdieu: Hijab

Immigrants Dept: After the first hijab debate surfaced there in 1989, sociologist Pierre Bourdieu said this of those fretting over a piece of cloth: Their explicit question, Should Islamic voile be accepted at school? hides their implicit question, Should immigrants of North African origin be accepted in France?, according to The Star. But immigrants must assimilate. So must all minorities, regardless of how many generations they ve been here. No multiculturalism for Quebec but rather interculturalism, with its implicit supremacy of not only the French language but also French culture and the Parti Quebecois descent into cultural warfare bears some resemblance to the contemporary French assault on minorities. The PQ, too, has an implicit agenda but not about immigration. The separatists have come to accept that Quebec s economic well-being depends on a steady inflow of immigrants, ideally French-speaking. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.