Abstract: Martin Schain hammers the last nail into the coffin of hypostasized ‘national models’ of immigrant integration. His comparison of France and the US shows that the ‘pluralism’ attributed to the American model has been of very recent origins, and that the ‘Republicanism’ attributed to the French model has been hollowed out by the state's practical interest in incorporating (and controlling) its immigrant population, which has entailed de facto multicultural policies in allegedly ‘assimilationist’ France.

Keywords: France, immigrants/immigration, Jacobin, multiculturalism, US,