Disintegrating empire : Algerian family migration and the limits of the welfare state in France / Elise Franklin.
2024
DC34.5.A4 F73 2024
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Title
Disintegrating empire : Algerian family migration and the limits of the welfare state in France / Elise Franklin.
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ISBN
9781496240705 (electronic bk.)
1496240707 (electronic bk.)
9781496233141 (hardcover)
149623314X (hardcover)
9781496243485 (paperback)
149624348X (paperback)
1496240707 (electronic bk.)
9781496233141 (hardcover)
149623314X (hardcover)
9781496243485 (paperback)
149624348X (paperback)
Published
Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Call Number
DC34.5.A4 F73 2024
Dewey Decimal Classification
325/.3440965
Summary
"Elise Franklin considers why and how the slow process of decolonization reshaped the welfare state and the meaning of the family in postwar France"-- Provided by publisher.
"Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the French social workers who mediated between the state and their Algerian clients. After World War II, social work teams, midlevel bureaucrats, and government ministries stitched specialized social services for Algerians into the structure of the midcentury welfare state. Once the Algerian Revolution began in 1954, many successive administrations and eventually two independent states-France and Algeria-continuously tailored welfare to support social aid services for Algerian families migrating across the Mediterranean. Disintegrating Empire reveals the belated collapse of specialized services more than a decade after Algerian independence. The welfare state's story, Elise Franklin argues, was not one merely of rise and fall but of winnowing services to "deserving" clients. Defunding social services-long associated with the neoliberal turn in the 1980s and beyond-has a much longer history defined by exacting controls on colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries. Disintegrating Empire explores the dynamic, conflicting, and often messy nature of these relationships, which show how Algerian family migration prompted by decolonization ultimately exposed the limits of the French welfare state. "-- Provided by publisher.
"Disintegrating Empire examines the entangled histories of three threads of decolonization: the French welfare state, family migration from Algeria, and the French social workers who mediated between the state and their Algerian clients. After World War II, social work teams, midlevel bureaucrats, and government ministries stitched specialized social services for Algerians into the structure of the midcentury welfare state. Once the Algerian Revolution began in 1954, many successive administrations and eventually two independent states-France and Algeria-continuously tailored welfare to support social aid services for Algerian families migrating across the Mediterranean. Disintegrating Empire reveals the belated collapse of specialized services more than a decade after Algerian independence. The welfare state's story, Elise Franklin argues, was not one merely of rise and fall but of winnowing services to "deserving" clients. Defunding social services-long associated with the neoliberal turn in the 1980s and beyond-has a much longer history defined by exacting controls on colonial citizens and migrants of newly independent countries. Disintegrating Empire explores the dynamic, conflicting, and often messy nature of these relationships, which show how Algerian family migration prompted by decolonization ultimately exposed the limits of the French welfare state. "-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
France overseas.
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Print version: 149624348X
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Table of Contents
A greater French family
The war over social work
The double bind of specificity
Foreign relations
Disorderly families
A new politics of immigration
Coda: The French melting pot revisited.
The war over social work
The double bind of specificity
Foreign relations
Disorderly families
A new politics of immigration
Coda: The French melting pot revisited.