Immigration and national identity
Subtitle: North African political movements in colonial and postcolonial France
By: Rabah Aissaoui.
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies; In the United States and in Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9781845118358
Subjects: North Africans -- France -- Politics and government; North Africans -- France -- Ethnic identity; Racism -- Political aspects -- France -- History -- 20th century; France -- Emigration and immigration; Africa, North -- Emigration and immigration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: North African nationalist discourse and actions in the interwar years. The emergence of the Messalist movement ; Ethnicity and nation-ness in the ENA-PPA discourse ; The markers of ethnicity ; Racism, colonialism and universalism ; Algerian nationalists in the French political arena; title: The Messalist movement from the Second World War to the eve of the Algerian War ; The Messalist-FLN conflict in France during the Algerian War; title: North African migrants in the postcolonial period : the MTA in 1970s' France. Ethnicity and nation-ness in the MTA discourse ; Antiracism, universalism and difference ; The MTA in the French sociopolitical arena.