1st Edition
African Political Activism in Postcolonial France State Surveillance and Social Welfare
By Gillian Glaes
Copyright 2019
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
258 Pages
by
Routledge
Also available as eBook on:
African Political Activism in Postcolonial France engages with several areas of scholarly inquiry, ranging from the study of immigrants to the investigation of surveillance and the legacy of colonialism. Within migration studies, many important analyses have focused on integration, yielding critical contributions to our understanding of immigration and identity. This work moves in a different... Read more
Contents. List of Figures . Preface: The Saint Denis Riot. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1: Immigrant Politics and The Union générale de Travailleurs sénégalais en France (UGTSF). 2: Political Mobilization and Collective Action: Ivry-sur-Seine and the African Immigrant Rent Strikes of the 1960s and 1970s . 3: From Private Tragedy to Cause Célèbre: Five Deaths in Aubervilliers . 4: Policing the Post-Colonial Order. 5: Tuberculosis, Disease, Social Welfare Initiatives, and the Centre Bossuet . 6: The Desire to Disperse: the Anti-Slum Campaign . Conclusion. Bibliography . Index
Biography
Gillian Glaes is a Visiting Professor at the University of Montana-Missoula.
