In a few days, Assa has an appointment at the Malian consulate, near Paris. This forty-year-old, born in France to Malian parents, has heard the plea of her 13-year-old daughter who wants to visit her grandparents’ country of origin. “Given the tensions with France, Mali is asking me to start the process so that my daughter and I can obtain Malian nationality,” explains Assa. But after the statements by the National Rally on dual nationals, I don’t really know what to do anymore, I don’t want this status to harm my daughter later on.”
Like Assa, the dual national parents we interviewed have been worried since the president of the RN, Jordan Bardella, announced that he wanted to prohibit access to certain “strategic” positions to citizens with dual nationality. “We talk about it every day with my husband and our friends,” says Linda. (first name has been changed)48-year-old Franco-Tunisian, mother of two children aged 3 and 17. Sending a far-right party to power will legitimize this constant suspicion of not belonging to France when you are dual national or of foreign origin. I do not want my son and daughter to become second-class citizens who are assigned to their origins. And it is all the more frightening because it is accompanied by a liberation of racist speech.
