Title: Algeria in France
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.
Subjects: Algerians, Attitudes, Cultural assimilation, Economic conditions, Emigration and immigration, Ethnic identity, History, Immigrants, Islam, Social conditions, Algeria, history, France, emigration and immigration, Assimilation (sociology), France, history, Algerians--history, Algerians--france--history, Algerians--attitudes, Algerians--france--attitudes, Algerians--ethnic identity, Algerians--france--ethnic identity, Algerians--cultural assimilation, Algerians--france--cultural assimilation, Algerians--social conditions, Algerians--france--social conditions, Algerians--economic conditions, Algerians--france--economic conditions, Immigrants--cultural assimilation, Immigrants--cultural assimilation--france, Islam--france, Algerians--cultural assimilation--france, Emigration and immigration--history, Dc34.5.a4 s58 2004, 944/.00492765
Places: Algeria, France