Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Editorial Reviews
Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005
"This informative and sophisticated work...examines Algerian immigration to France....[Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations...."
Book 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 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.
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Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (New Anthropologies of Europe)
Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation (New Anthropologies of Europe),Paul A. Silverstein,Indiana University Press,0253217121,Algerians,Anthropology - Cultural,Attitudes,Ethnic identity,Europe - France,Film & Video - General,France,General,History,History - General History,Social Science,Sociology
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