Decolonization and the French of Algeria
Subtitle: bringing the settler colony home
By: Sung-Eun Choi (assistant professor, Bentley University, USA)
Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781137520746
Subjects: French National characteristics; Decolonization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism; Repatriation; HISTORY / Africa / North; Ethnic relations; Colonization; HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century; Colonists; Relations; HISTORY / Europe / France; History
Description: "In the summer of 1962, almost one million Europeans, Jews, and Muslim citizens were evacuated from Algeria, as nine million Algerians were about to celebrate its independence. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins, and to integrate them into Metropolitan society. This book is about how and why Repatriation remains intact as a policy and became central to France's postcolonial understanding of decolonization, the Algerian past, and French identity"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: 1. French Settler Colonialism in Algeria; title: 2. The Algerian War in the Settler Colony and the Metropole; title: 3. Repatriation : Bringing the Settler Colony "Home"; title: 4. Repatriates against de Gaulle; title: 5. Liberal Repatriation after de Gaulle; title: 6. Socialist Repatriation after de Gaulle; title: 7. Repatriates Narrate French Algeria; title: Epilogue.