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The civilizing mission in the metropole : Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization / Amelia H. Lyons.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (341 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780804787147
  • 080478714X
  • 0804784213
  • 9780804784214
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Civilizing mission in the metropole : Algerian families and the French welfare state during decolonization.DDC classification:
  • 305.892/76504409045 23
LOC classification:
  • DC34.5.A4 L96 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Civilizing "French Muslims from Algeria" -- Instructing the experts : framing the metropolitan "conquest of hearts" -- Instructing a "difficult and delicate clientele" : the social services mission -- From dormitories to homes : housing workers and families during the Fourth Republic -- Services and surveillance : welfare, the police, and the Algerian War -- The great "hope" : housing Algerian families at the height of the Algerian War.
Summary: 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. This book 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Civilizing "French Muslims from Algeria" -- Instructing the experts : framing the metropolitan "conquest of hearts" -- Instructing a "difficult and delicate clientele" : the social services mission -- From dormitories to homes : housing workers and families during the Fourth Republic -- Services and surveillance : welfare, the police, and the Algerian War -- The great "hope" : housing Algerian families at the height of the Algerian War.

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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. This book 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.

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