Over the last twenty years, public policies towards groups identified as « Roma » have multiplied in France. These aim to keep away those considered as undesirable immigrants but also, in parallel, to offer « contractual integration » to part of them. This paper looks at how the targets of these policies succeed in maintaining their presence and develop their local integration and autonomy in an unfavorable environment, without ever questioning the categorizations to which they are subject, and that justify institutional practices and attitudes towards them. This is in particular to better understand the subjective and collective foundations of this « non-resistant resistance », while documenting its various modalities of exercise. To do this, we focus on how migrant families (from Romania and Bulgaria), « beneficiaries of housing projects », adapt to the injunctions and constraints that motivate and structure public hospitality policies. We thus propose to see how these families manage, « having thwarted exclusion » for several years, to « domesticate inclusion », thanks to the misunderstandings they maintain with various managers and professionals of these projects.

Resistance Integration Misunderstanding Public policies Politiques categorization Roma Migrants

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