«S'intégrer, c'est pourtant simple», «Être intégré, c'est se faire discret», «Certaines cultures s'intègrent mieux que d'autres», «L'immigration menace l'identité française», «La langue est un puissant facteur d'intégration», «L'intégration passe par le mariage mixte», «L'intégration, c'est la reconnaissance sociale»... Autant d'idées reçues que nous entendons fréquemment et qui son ici analysés par Azouz Begag.
Azouz Begag is a French writer, politician and researcher in economics and sociology at the CNRS.
Begag has written approximately 20 literary books for adults and children, as well as songs. Furthermore, he is the scriptwriter of the French movie Camping à la ferme ("Camping at the farm"), where he exposed his vision of "three levels of riches" multiculturalism in today's French society : the advantages of its relatively new multiethnicity due to a new non-European immigration mixed with the basis of its historical and natural multiculturality whether coming from the riches of its several regional cultures and languages or from the successful integration of previous waves of European immigration during its history.