Making Space
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Africa
African History
African Immigrant
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Algerian Immigrant
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French Empire
French History
French Studies
History
Immigrant
Immigration
Imperialism
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Migration History
Minority Studies
Muslim Immigrant
North Africa
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Twentieth Century History
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- ISBN 9780803290730
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 2024
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Since the 2005 urban protests in France, public debate has often centered on questions of how the country has managed its relationship with its North African citizens and residents. In Making Space Melissa K. Byrnes considers how four French suburbs near Paris and Lyon reacted to rapidly growing populations of North Africans, especially Algerians before, during, and after the Algerian War. In particular, Byrnes investigates what motivated local actors such as municipal officials, regional authorities, employers, and others to become involved in debates over migrants’ rights and welfare, and the wide variety of strategies community leaders developed in response to the migrants’ presence. An examination of the ways local policies and attitudes formed and re-formed communities offers a deeper understanding of the decisions that led to the current tensions in French society and questions about France’s ability-and will-to fulfill the promise of liberty, equality, and fraternity for all of its citizens. Byrnes uses local experiences to contradict a version of French migration history that reads the urban unrest of recent years as preordained.
Melissa K. Byrnes is a professor of modern European and world history at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
