Postcolonial Encounters in International Relations : The Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb

Taylor & Francis Ltd

Postcolonial Encounters in International RelationsThe Politics of Transgression in the Maghreb\nAuthor(s): Alina Sajed\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138289512, 978-1138289512\nSynopsis\nPostcolonial Encounters in International Relations examines the social and cultural aspects of the political violence that underpinned the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the multi-layered postcolonial realities that ensued. \n\nThis book explores the reality of the lives of North African migrants in postcolonial France, with a particular focus on their access to political entitlements such as citizenship and rights. This reality is complicated even further by complex practices of memory undertaken by Franco-Maghrebian intellectuals, who negotiate, in their writings, between the violent memory of the French colonial project in the Maghreb, and the contemporary conundrums of postcolonial migration. \n\nThe book purs.