The Immigrant Consumer in Europe

Presentation

An introduction to the research carried out in France and Germany on the theme of immigrant consumers.

This work aims to document a series of Franco-German scientific exchanges between 2015 and 2017 on the theme of the immigrant consumer. Across five encounters, the aim was to bring to life a new field of research, combining two themes traditionally addressed separately: migration, on the one hand, and consumption, on the other. The participants sought to foster dialogue between historiographies which share little or no mutual knowledge because of the language barrier or the limited reception of existing work.

Interview

Editors

Virginie Silhouette-Dercourt is a senior lecturer at Paris XIII University in the Seine-Saint-Denis department (France). She is a researcher at the Paris-Nord Economics Centre and an associate researcher at the Marc Bloch Centre in Berlin. Alongside Maren Möhring, she coordinated and co-chaired the CIERA Franco-German research training programme on the immigrant consumer in Europe.

Maren Möhring is a historian and Professor of Comparative Cultural and Social History at the University of Leipzig (Germany). She has published a number of reference works on the effects of migrations on the food preferences and habits of German society.

Marie Poinsot is a political scientist and editor-in-chief of the journal Hommes et Migrations. She leads the publications department of the French National Museum of the History of Immigration. Alongside Serge Weber, she coordinated Migrations et mutations de la société française : l’état des savoirs (Migrations and Shifts in French Society: Current Knowledge) (La Découverte, 2014), and she edited À chacun ses étrangers ? France–Allemagne de 1871 à aujourd’hui (To Each Their own Foreigner? France and Germany from 1871 to the Present Day) (Actes Sud, 2009) with Marianne Amar and Catherine Wihtol de Wenden.

108 pages
16 x 24 cm
Publication: 24/05/2018
ISBN: 9782858312733