Algeria in France

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"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