Description
Book SynopsisMaltese 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.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
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
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