Re: A Veil Closes France’s Door to Citizenship
none of this makes sense.
immigration does so much to break the families.
the hybrid and diasporic lives that we have got used to living, have their own hits to the personal sense of dignity.
why split a family? why look at a woman' head scarf to be her limitation? why bring in and combine the counter-productive outcomes of a said fair national legal-system and its stipulations around allowing a foreign citizen with the legal status to stay in the country, with the issue of race?
these are all ethical issues.
petty ulterior motives could harm many things against the weak and the helpless.
no one can make this argument, that the migrated individual is not of any use to the country s/he migrates to.
the dichotomies of obtaining the legitimate status to be in any given country and the fortitude that people have to make use of, in order to withstand all kinds of hardships in getting established in a country, are all very problematic and testing situations for the families and perhaps also for the legal, national, and social systems in which these problems arise.
the age old restenments surface and the collateral damages gain shape only to further hurt the weak. so NO, the decision is not right and the role that the minister played is dubious.
however, what the immigrant could do and should be allowed to do, is to plea her case again.
being covered on one's head with a pieace of cloth, symbolizing her affinity with her faith, is no damn reason to deny her a resident status.