Lecturer

L.ès L. (Poitiers), Ph.D. (Warwick)

Contact Details

• Email: roc@le.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2686
• Subject: French

Research Summary

Dr Rocheron conducted sociological research in Britain at the Centre for Mass Communication Research (University of Leicester) before her appointment to the School of Modern Languages . As a sociologist, her past publications covered gender and feminism in education, and health issues related to minority ethnic groups in Britain.

Current research themes include French television culture, Algerian immigration, multiculturalism in France and Britain and contemporary French women's writing. She is co-editing with Christopher Rolfe a book titled 'Shifting Frontiers of France and Francophonie' (Peter Lang, forthcoming).

Recent Publications

Families on the frontline: mixed marriages in France in Population and Social Policy in France, Cross, M and Perry, S (London:Cassell), september 1997.

Les mariages mixtes, un indice anthropologique de l'assimilation? in Immigration et intégration - l'état des savoirs, Dewitte, P., Editions La Découverte, Paris, février 1999.

Paradoxes of Hijirah (exile): Voices of Algerian Men in Britain, in Displaced Persons: Conditions of Exile in European Culture, Studies in European Cultural Transition, Sharon Ouditt(ed.), Bodmin, Ashgate, 2002.
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