Immigration politics in the New Europe -- Colonization and the production of ethnicity -- Spatializing practices: migration, domesticity, urban planning -- Islam, bodily practice, and social reproduction -- The generation of generations: Beur identity and political agency -- Beur writing and historical consciousness -- Transnational social formations in the New Europe
Summary
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
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Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Chicago, 1998) presented under the title: Trans-politics: Islam, Berberity and the French nation-state
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-275) and index
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