Algeria in France
Subtitle: transpolitics, race, and nation
By: Paul A. Silverstein.
Series: New anthropologies of Europe
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Algerians -- France -- History; Algerians -- France -- Attitudes; Algerians -- France -- Ethnic identity; Algerians -- France -- Cultural assimilation; Algerians -- France -- Social conditions; Algerians -- France -- Economic conditions; Immigrants -- Cultural assimilation -- France; Islam -- France; France -- Emigration and immigration -- History; Algeria -- Emigration and immigration -- History
Description: "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 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-275) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1998) presented under the title: Trans-politics: Islam, Berberity and the French nation-state.
Table of contents: title: Immigration politics in the New Europe; title: Colonization and the production of ethnicity; title: Spatializing practices: migration, domesticity, urban planning; title: Islam, bodily practice, and social reproduction; title: The generation of generations: Beur identity and political agency; title: Beur writing and historical consciousness; title: Transnational social formations in the New Europe.