Algeria in France: Transpolitics, Race, and NationAlgerian 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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... Mediterranean , Algerian politics have become mapped ever more mimetically onto French soil . In this sense , the book addresses transnational political formations based in ethnic and reli- gious solidarity that call into question ...
... Mediterranean . The opposition between various ethnic and re- ligious subjectivities — between Islamist and Berberist groups — is often con- stituted by both their purveyors and critics as absolute , and it is through the lens of such ...
... Mediterranean . On the other hand , Franco - Algerian transnational political projects have turned toward Europe , with Algerians in France forging reciprocal ties of solidarity with other migrant and regional groups to petition the ...
... - World War II years based on a system of rotation . In West Germany , this consisted of a series of bilateral agreements beginning in 1955 with a number of southern European and Mediterranean countries ( 26 Algeria in France.
... Mediterranean countries ( Italy , Spain , Greece , Turkey , Morocco , Portugal , Yugoslavia ) for short - term con- tracts . This guest - worker ( Gastarbeiter ) system replaced the industrial la- bor force either coerced during the ...