Algeria in France

Paul A. Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

". . . this is an important call that diaspora should become as important a theme in North African history as it has been in that of sub-Saharan Africa."—H-Africa"[A] richly nuanced and informative [analysis] of France at the beginning of the twenty-first century."—Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley"This informative and sophisticated work . . . examines Algerian immigration to France . . . [Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations.March/April 2005"—Foreign Affairs"[Silverstein] has elaborated an incisive inquiry into the complex configurations of state power and minority agency that marks a central contribution to the academic study of transnationalism and globalization.Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010"—Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder". . admirably broad study. . . ."—Times Literary Supplement"[Silverstein] approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals encountered during his field work in the 1990s, applying an ethnographical methodology with a highly critical and self-reflexive awareness of the environment he shared with them.... [This] is a critical work in opening up a broader consideration of the complex set of identifications running between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world.April, 2011"—H-Levant"An insightful chronicle. . . ."—John Bowen"This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a transnational axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean."—Susan Terrio". . . a remarkable work about the dislocating effects of modernity . . . sure to be influential in the fields of postcolonial theory, French politics, and migration studies."—David A. McMurray

• Introduction1. Immigration Politics in the New Europe2. Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity3. Spatializing Practices: Migration, Domesticity, Urban Planning4. Islam, Bodily Practice, and Social Reproduction5. The Generation of Generations: Beur Identity and Political Agency6. Beur Writing and Historical Consciousness7. Transnational Social Formations in the New EuropeConclusion