ABSTRACT
There is obviously a good deal of truth to this conventional wisdom. Public dis course and public policies bearing on the integration of immigrants are indeed vastly more 'differentialist' - vastly more sensitive to and supportive of 'difference' - today than they were, say, in the period between the two world wars in France or the US, or in the early postwar decades in the USo The 1980s and 90s indeed witnessed an unprecedented efflorescence of differentialist discourse - and differentialist integration policies - in aB Western countries of immigration.
