This book investigates the experience of ethno-racial discrimination in France and the forms that resistance take in a colour-blind context. It embarks in testing existing theories on the experience of discrimination, and on the diverse repertoire of collective action to fight discriminatory practices in France.

Angéline Escafré-Dublet is Assistant Professor in Political Science at the University of Lyon 2 and the director of the Integer/discrimination department of the Institut Convergence Migration (ICM/CNRS). Her research pertains to immigration and how it relates to matters of culture and politics.

Virginie Guiraudon is CNRS Senior Researcher in Sciences Po Center for Comparative European studies (CEE). Her main interests lie in the comparative politics of immigration and citizenship and also include European integration, transnational mobilization, the Europeanization of borders and anti-discrimination policies.

Julien Talpin is CNRS Research Fellow in Political Science at the University of Lille Center for Social and Political Administrative Studies and Research (CERAPS), and co-director of the scientific interest group "Democracy and Participation." His research focuses on political engagement in working-class neighborhoods.

Introduction: Responses to ethno-racial discrimination in colour-blind France 1. Polite responses to stigmatization: ethics of exemplarity among french muslim elites 2. Counter-radicalization, Islam and Laïcité: policed multiculturalism in France's Banlieues 3. From victims to culprits? The reshaping of local antidiscrimination policy in France 4. Why French racial minorities do not mobilize more often. Disempowerment, tactical repertoires and soft repression of antiracist movements 5. Anti-racist mobilization in France: between quiet activism and awareness raising 6. National origin discrimination or racial discrimination? The mobilization of SNCF's Moroccan railway workers