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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 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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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Sociology & anthropology Anthropology

• Full title: Algeria in France
• Subtitle: Transpolitics, Race, and Nation
• Author: Paul A. Silverstein
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• EAN: 9780253217127
• ISBN: 0253217121
• ID: 04870752
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Weight: 484 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 160 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. October 2004

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