Empire on the Seine

Empire on the Seine
Author: Amit Prakash
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2022
Genre: Discrimination in law enforcement
ISBN: 0192898876

Amit Prakash draws on extensive archival materials to understand the colonial legacy of how minority populations have been policed in twentieth century Paris, showing how colonial racism was integrated into the policing of Paris, and that architecture, urbanism, and social housing contributed to this legacy.

The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole

The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole
Author: Amelia H. Lyons
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2013-11-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 080478714X

France, which has the largest Muslim minority community in Europe, has been in the news in recent years because of perceptions that Muslims have not integrated into French society. The Civilizing Mission in the Metropole explores the roots of these debates through an examination of the history of social welfare programs for Algerian migrants from the end of World War II until Algeria gained independence in 1962. After its colonization in 1830, Algeria fought a bloody war of decolonization against France, as France desperately fought to maintain control over its most prized imperial possession. In the midst of this violence, some 350,000 Algerians settled in France. This study examines the complex and often-contradictory goals of a welfare network that sought to provide services and monitor Algerian migrants' activities. Lyons particularly highlights family settlement and the central place Algerian women held in French efforts to transform the settled community. Lyons questions myths about Algerian immigration history and exposes numerous paradoxes surrounding the fraught relationship between France and Algeria—many of which echo in French debates about Muslims today.

France and Algeria

France and Algeria
Author: Phillip Naylor
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2024-06-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1477328432

An examination of the complicated history between France and Algeria since the latter's independence.

Current research in sociology

Current research in sociology
Author: Margaret S. Archer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2018-11-05
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111681033

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Historical Dictionary of Algeria

Historical Dictionary of Algeria
Author: Phillip C. Naylor
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 623
Release: 2006-09-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0810864800

The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is the second largest country in Africa. This, coupled with its location near Europe and its prized hydrocarbons (oil and gas), continues to increase Algeria's international importance. Algeria's fight for liberation from French colonialism, which it finally achieved in 1962, was made famous by Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers (1966) and stands as an inspiration for many nearby countries. However, recent violence caused in part by ideological rivalry between a declining socialism and rising Islamism, illustrates post-colonial peril and tragedy. Today, Algeria endeavors to reconcile its past with its present. The third edition of the Historical Dictionary of Algeria has undergone extensive and substantial changes since previous editions, especially taking into account Algeria's civil strife of the 1990s and the country's controversial re-institutionalization and re-democratization. This is accomplished by means of a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, maps, black & white photos, economic tables and statistics, appendixes, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events.

Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000

Women in Global Migration, 1945-2000
Author: Eleanore O. Hofstetter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 550
Release: 2001-03-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313016941

With large numbers of people migrating to other countries after World War II, a substantial amount of scholarship has focused on the status, problems, and successes of women immigrants since 1945. The first comprehensive compilation of the international literature on these women, this bibliography--with over 5,100 entries--reveals the breadth of scholarship on feminist immigration issues. Focusing particularly on sources from North America and Western Europe, where most immigrant women settled, the book includes feminist analyses, bibliographies, demographic studies, economic comparisons, educational research, health and medical reports, legal discussions, biographies and autobiographies, psychological case studies, religious reports, sociological investigations, and publications dealing with general aspects of female immigration. The book covers such legal issues as citizenship, international conventions on contract workers, the traffic in women, and services and government benefits to immigrants. Medical entries include such topics as female genital mutilation, comparative obstetric results, and equity of treatment. Education entries cover such subjects as adult education and the second-language programs necessary for assimilation. With entries in several languages, the bibliography includes books, journal articles, essays and chapters in books, dissertations, ERIC reports, national and international government documents, and statistical sources. With immigration a major political and social issue in most countries today, the book provides an important research tool.

Paris

Paris
Author: Frances Chambers
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1998
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A comprehensive bibliography of the French capital. Includes sections on geography, guidebooks, history, economy, literature and intellectual life, politics, the arts, architecture and urban planning, and mass media. The history, arts, and literature sections take up the bulk of the text. Most cited works were published after 1970. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR