Paul A. Silverstein | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

Algerian migration to France began at the end of the 19th century, but inrecent years France's Algerian community has been the focus of a shifting publicdebate encompassing issues of unemployment, multiculturalism, Islam, and terrorism.In this finely crafted historical and anthropological study, Paul A. Silversteinexamines a wide range of social and cultural forms -- from immigration policy, colonial governance, and urban planning to corporate advertising, sports, literarynarratives, and songs -- for what they reveal about postcolonial Algeriansubjectivities. Investigating the connection between anti-immigrant racism and therise of Islamist and Berberist ideologies among the "second generation"("Beurs"), he argues that the appropriation of these cultural-politicalprojects by Algerians in France represents a critique of notions of European orMediterranean unity and elucidates the mechanisms by which the Algerian civil warhas been transferred onto French soil.