Colonial Migrants and Racism: Algerians in France, 1900-62

by N. MacMaster

Overview

The first comprehensive study in English of the earliest and largest 'Third-World' migration into pre-war Europe. Full attention is given to the relationship between the society of emigration, undermined by colonialism, and processes of ethnic organisation in the metropolitan context. Contemporary anti-Algerian racism is shown to have deep roots in moves by colonial elites to control and police the migrants and to segregate them from contact with Communism, nationalist movements and the French working class.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333644669
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	04/23/1997
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	307
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

NEIL MACMASTER

Table of Contents

List of Maps, Tables and Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Colonial Destruction of Algerian Society - Kabylia and the Migrant Tradition - Emigration: the Early Years, 1905-18 - Departure and Employment - Life in the Enclave - Islam and the Village - Working-Class Racism - Elite Racism and the Colonial Lobby - Policing and Surveillance in France - Colonial Crisis and Emigration, 1930-54 - Emigration and the Algerian War, 1954-62 - Conclusion - Appendix - Bibliography - Index