Algeria in France

<p>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.</p>