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A brilliant excavation of the condition we usually describe as immigration. Sayad brings to light aspects of that condition typically camouflaged or neutralized by the language itself of most academic research on immigration. He juxtaposes to this language the apparent opacity of the language of immigrants’ lived experience and helps us see its transparence and what it communicates.’ – Saskia Sassen, author of Guests and Aliens
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements. A Note on Terminology.
Preface.
Sources.
Introduction.
1 The Original Sin And The Collective Lie.
2 The Three Ages Of Emigration.
3 An Exemplary Immigration.
4 Nationalism And Emigration.
5 The Backlash On The Society Of Origin.
6 A Relationship Of Domination.
7 The Wrongs Of The Absentee.
8 The Immigrant: ‘Os For Life’.
9 Illness, Suffering And The Body.
10 The Weight Of Words.
11 ‘Naturalisation’.
Appendix: Three Interviews About Identity.
12 Immigration And ‘State Thought’.
13 Recapitulation.
Notes.
References.
Bibliography: The Writings Of Abdelmalek Sayad
