Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-312) and index.

Museology and globalization: the Quai Branly Museum -- Object/subject migration: The National Centre for the History of Immigration -- Sarkozy's Law: national identity and the institutionalization of xenophobia -- Africa, France, and Eurafrica in the twenty-first century -- From mirage to image: contest(ed)ing space in diasporic films (1955-2011) -- The "Marie Ndiaye Affair," or the coming of a postcolonial évoluée -- The Euro-mediterranean: literature and migration -- Into the European "jungle": migration and grammar in the new Europe -- Documenting the periphery: the French banlieues in words and film -- Decolonizing France: national literatures, world literature, and world identities.