ISBN:
9780253003041
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (302 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
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Print version Algeria in France : Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
DDC:
944/.00492765
Keywords:
Islam
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Algerians Ethnic identity
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Algerians Attitudes
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Algerians Cultural assimilation
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Algerians Economic conditions
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Algerians Social conditions
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Algerians History
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Immigrants Cultural assimilation
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Algerians ; Cultural assimilation ; France
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Algerians ; France ; Attitudes
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Algerians ; France ; Economic conditions
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Algerians ; France ; Ethnic identity
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Algerians ; France ; History
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Algerians ; France ; Social conditions
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Immigrants ; Cultural assimilation ; France
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Electronic books
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Algeria Emigration and immigration
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History
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France Emigration and immigration
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History
Abstract:
Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but in recent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting public debate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism. In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silverstein examines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literary narratives, and songs -- for what they reveal about postcolonial Algerian subjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and the rise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the "second generation" ("Beurs"), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-political projects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European or Mediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil war has been transferred onto French soil.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1 Immigration Politics in the New Europe -- 2 Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity -- 3 Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning -- 4 Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction -- 5 The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency -- 6 Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness -- 7 Transnational Social Formations in the New Europe -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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