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Abstract: Even though there is no consensus among scholars about the concept of “Islamophobia,” it is important to acknowledge that this phenomenon is spreading all over the world. In the case of France, Islamophobia is mainly a process linked to racism, which to a degree is the consequence of the French colonial past in the Maghreb. In this sense, meanwhile the ideological framework of the “French civilizing mission” was driven, Islam was also considered the ultimate obstacle for the assimilation of Algerian and Tunisian peoples. Currently, the debate around the “French communitarianism” and the integration of more Muslim population to the French society has worsened due to the efforts empowered by the French government against the Islam’s visibility.  Nowadays, although ideologies based on racial arguments which justified the inferiority of “the others” are condemned; negative arguments and dispositions referring to the Muslim population have become “uncensored” and are an essential part on the discourse of right-wing populist parties. In France, like in other countries, the visibility of Islam has become a fundamental issue in a political scene where Islamophobia has assumed the form of a new populism. Keywords: Islamophobia, Racism, Identity, New populism, France

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