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...[in] Silverstein's admirably broad study, Algeria in France ... A vast range of sociocultural forms are tackled with equal confidence... Silverstein offers excellent and factually dense summaries of the key topics and presents much new research, eticulously undertaken... As well as breadth, Algeria in France enjoys great depth, thanks to Silverstein's historicization ot the two countries' contemporary imbrications. --Times Literary Supplement, September 2, 2005 This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a trans-national axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean. --Susan Terrio

[Silverstein] has elaborated an incisive inquiry into the complex configurations of state power and minority agency that marks a central contribution to the academic study of transnationalism and globalization. -Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder, Journal Middle East Women's Stds JMEWS, Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010 [Silverstein] approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals encountered during his field work in the 1990s, applying an ethnographical methodology with a highly critical and self-reflexive awareness of the environment he shared with them... [This] is a critical work in opening up a broader consideration of the complex set of identifications running between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world. -H-Levant, April, 2011 - This informative and sophisticated work... examines Algerian immigration to France... [Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations. -Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005 .. admirably broad study... -Times Literary Supplement [A] richly nuanced and informative [analysis] of France at the beginning of the twenty-first century. -Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley, H-France ... this is an important call that diaspora should become as important a theme in North African history as it has been in that of sub-Saharan Africa. -H-Africa This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a transnational axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean. -Susan Terrio An insightful chronicle... -John Bowen ... a remarkable work about the dislocating effects of modernity... sure to be influential in the fields of postcolonial theory, French politics, and migration studies. -David A. McMurray

- [Silverstein] has elaborated an incisive inquiry into the complex configurations of state power and minority agency that marks a central contribution to the academic study of transnationalism and globalization. -Ruth Mas, University of Colorado at Boulder, Journal Middle East Women's Stds JMEWS, Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010 This informative and sophisticated work... examines Algerian immigration to France... [Silverstein] deftly summarizes the history of Franco-Algerian relations. -Foreign Affairs, March/April 2005 .. admirably broad study... -Times Literary Supplement [A] richly nuanced and informative [analysis] of France at the beginning of the twenty-first century. -Tyler Stovall, University of California, Berkeley, H-France ... this is an important call that diaspora should become as important a theme in North African history as it has been in that of sub-Saharan Africa. -H-Africa This is work of impressive erudition which is richly documented, theoretically sophisticated, and epistemologically provocative in that it situates itself firmly on a transnational axis linking France and Algeria across the Mediterranean. -Susan Terrio An insightful chronicle... -John Bowen ... a remarkable work about the dislocating effects of modernity... sure to be influential in the fields of postcolonial theory, French politics, and migration studies. -David A. McMurray [Silverstein] approaches his subjects through the medium of everyday life, following the random individuals encountered during his field work in the 1990s, applying an ethnographical methodology with a highly critical and self-reflexive awareness of the environment he shared with them... [This] is a critical work in opening up a broader consideration of the complex set of identifications running between France, Algeria, and the wider Arab and Muslim world. -H-Levant, April, 2011

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Paul A. Silverstein is Professor of Anthropology at Reed College.

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