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

by Neil MacMaster

Book 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312165013
• ISBN13: 9780312165017
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 307 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.8"