Kévin Drif

Kévin is currently a PhD student in the department of French studies at the University of
California, Berkeley. His current research focuses on the contemporary cultural representations
of children of Maghrebi immigrants in France, mainly in cinema and television, and the way this
youth must constantly negotiate with French republicanism to reconcile their North African
ancestry with their French identity in a country so adamant to reject ideas of social
multiculturalism. While he is working on the importance of education and schools in French
cinema and literature and their interactions with children of immigrant origins, Kévin is also
currently designing a project about the contemporary representations of French Maghrebi youth
in television series through a cultural studies lens which could provide important insight about
the precarious social and political positions of this part of the population in contemporary
France.