Type
Text
Type
Dissertation
Advisor
Lebovics, Herman | Wilson, Kathleen | Beverley, Eric | Rosenberg, Clifford.
Date
2012-05-01
Keywords
European history--African history | Algeria, Algerian War, France, Islam, Migration, Welfare
Department
Department of History
Language
en_US
Source
This work is sponsored by the Stony Brook University Graduate School in compliance with the requirements for completion of degree.
Identifier
http://hdl.handle.net/11401/71414
Publisher
The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY.
Format
application/pdf
Abstract
This dissertation is a study of welfare services provided to Algerian migrants in France from the end of World War II through the Algerian War. The brutal war ending in Algerian independence in 1962 fell in the midst of thirty years of French industrialization fueled by the arrival of thousands of Algerian workers. It also followed over a century of definition and redefinition by the French state of what it meant that Algeria and France formed a single nation. In this period, Algerians' perceived cultural difference was the object of serious concern to state policy makers and local associations alike, concern rooted in assumptions that Algerians' capacity for assimilation was hindered by their presumably un-modern, Muslim lifestyle, as well as in fears that the Algerian National Liberation Front was gaining ground in the metropole. This dissertation argues that the realm of welfare became a second front during the Algerian War, in which social services became a wartime tactic and the stakes were the future of Alg??rie fran?¼aise and the validity of republican colorblindness. | 256 pages
Recommended Citation
Sloan, Elizabeth Caitlin, "Welfare and Warfare: Social Action for Algerian Migrants in Metropolitan France during the Algerian War" (2012). Stony Brook Theses and Dissertations Collection, 2006-2020 (closed to submissions). 620.
https://commons.library.stonybrook.edu/stony-brook-theses-and-dissertations-collection/620