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Colonial Memory and Postcolonial Europe - Maltese Settlers in Algeria and France

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Informationen zum Autor Andrea L. Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lafayette College and editor of Europe's Invisible Migrants. Klappentext Andrea L. Smith is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Lafayette College and editor of Europe¿s Invisible Migrants. Zusammenfassung Maltese settlers in colonial Algeria had never lived in France, but as French citizens were abruptly "repatriated" there after Algerian independence in 1962. This study provides insight into race, ethnicity, and nationalism in Europe as well as cultural context for understanding political trends in contemporary France. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 1. A Song in Malta 2. Maltese Settler Clubs in France 3. A Hierarchy of Settlers and the Liminal Maltese 4. The Algerian Melting Pot 5. The Ambivalence of Assimilation 6. The French-Algerian War and Its Aftermath 7. Diaspora, Rejection, and Nostalgérie 8. Settler Ethnicity and Identity Politics in Postcolonial France 9. Place, Replaced: Malta as Algeria in the Pied-noir Imagination Notes Sources Cited Index

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Authors Andrea L. Smith
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.08.2006
 
EAN 9780253218568
ISBN 978-0-253-21856-8
No. of pages 288
Series New Anthropologies of Europe
Subject Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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