[Migrations in the Mediterranean region: the cordon sanitaire and the rejection of diversity].

"The article tries to clarify the reasons [for] European negative attitudes towards its Maghrebine migrant population and endeavours to go beyond the traditional explanations ascribing such attitudes to social and economic crisis. The main thesis...is that 'being other' in Western culture has not always been very easy, above all when the 'other' is oriental, Arab or Moslem, i.e. the 'nearest difference'." (SUMMARY IN ENG AND FRE)
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