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Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series General Editors:Megan Vaughan, Kings’ College, Cambridge, andRichard Drayton, King’s College London This informative series covers the broad span of modern imperial history while also exploring the recent developments in former colonial states where resi- dues of empire can still be found. The books provide in-depth examinations of empires as competing and complementary power structures encouraging the reader to reconsider their understanding of international and world history during recent centuries. Titles include: Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo THE “CIVILISING MISSION” OF PORTUGUESE COLONIALISM, 1870–1930 Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo and António Costa Pinto THE ENDS OF EUROPEAN COLONIAL EMPIRES Cases and Comparisons Ulbe Bosma and Anthony Webster COMMODITIES, PORTS AND ASIAN MARITIME TRADE SINCE 1750 Sung-Eun Choi DECOLONIZATION AND THE FRENCH OF ALGERIA Bringing the Settler Colony Home T. J. 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Please contact your bookseller or, in case of difficulty, write to us at the address below with your name and address, the title of the series and one of the ISBNs quoted above. Customer Services Department, Macmillan Distribution Ltd, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS, England Decolonization and the French of Algeria Bringing the Settler Colony Home Sung-Eun Choi Assistant Professor, Bentley University, USA © Sung-Eun Choi 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-52074-6 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. 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ISBN 978-1-349-55803-2 ISBN 978-1-137-52075-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-52075-3 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Choi, Sung-Eun. Title: Decolonization and the French of Algeria : bringing the settler colony home / Sung-Eun Choi (assistant professor, Bentley University, USA). Description: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. | Series: Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: LCCN 2015023936 | ISBN 9781137520746 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Decolonization – Algeria – History – 20th century. | Decolonization – France – History – 20th century. | Algeria – Colonization – History – 20th century. | French – Algeria – History – 20th century. | Repatriation – France – History – 20th century. | Colonists – France – History – 20th century. | National characteristics, French – History – 20th century. | France – Ethnic relations – History – 20th century. | France – Relations – Algeria. | Algeria – Relations – France. | BISAC: HISTORY / Africa / North. | HISTORY / Europe / France. | HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. Classification: LCC DT295 .C455 2015 | DDC 965/.0461—dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015023936 This book is dedicated to my sister, and to my grandparents who lived their own colonial and postcolonial histories This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 1 French Settler Colonialism in Algeria 13 2 The Algerian War in the Settler Colony 33 3 Repatriation: Bringing the Settler Colony “Home” 52 4 Gaullists and the Repatriate Challenge 76 5 Repatriation after de Gaulle: Pompidou and Giscard 96 6 A Socialist Politics of Repatriation 113 7 Repatriates Narrate the Colonial Past 128 Epilogue 1 48 Notes 1 55 Bibliographyy 191 Index 2 15 vii Acknowledgments While all its shortcomings are solely the responsibility of the author, this book involved the immeasurable energies and support of friends and colleagues whose names cannot all be mentioned here. The project was a difficult undertaking, not only because of the many twists and turns, but also because of the challenges of dealing with living subjects whose history remains so highly controversial. To study history is to engage one’s passion; but to engage the lives of others is to learn the value of humility essential to becoming a professional historian. This book is far from having achieved this goal, but the goal was always in mind. This Acknowledgment recognizes all the numerous messieurs and dames who entrusted their stories to the a méricaine d’origine coréene. Special thanks to the Rondeaus, the Fenechs, the Farinaccis, and the legion of those who helped me in Paris and in Aix, and Madame Besnaci-Lancou. Whatever their stories, without their help, this book would never have seen the light of day. I thank those who helped me pursue this project and remained invested in its publication. These are the staff at the CAC, CADN, Quai D’Orsay diplomatic archives, CAOM, and the departmental archives of the Boûches-du-Rhône and the Gard. I was fortunate to have uninhibited access to the UCLA and SRLF libraries, the collec- tions of which proved as astonishing as the agility with which the staff worked to retrieve them. A most special thank you to Perry Anderson for accommodating all the bonne foi behind this project, and for his patience and kindness. All my teachers at UCLA receive heartfelt recognition. A special thank you to David Myers, Peter Baldwin, and Russell Jacoby for their scholarship, critique, and warm support, and for going beyond the call of duty. Words are insuffi- cient to thank Gabi Piterberg, Gershon Shafir, and the Sarfatti family. Michael Salman and Caroline Ford invested more time than they should have in the project. Thank you also to CK Lee who gave much encouragement. At the IEA-Nantes, I thank Alain Supiot, Samuel Jubé, and the IEA fellows of 2010–2011 who read and commented viii Acknowledgments ix on parts of this work. At WSU I have many to thank, especially Jesse Spohnholz for his friendship/mentorship, Emily Anderson, Lawrence Hatter, and Clif Stratton for their camaraderie, and all my colleagues in Pullman, WA. I must warmly acknowledge Pat Mainella, Noriko Kawamura, and Roger Chan for their support and encouragement. Thanks also to Ray Sun. Special thanks go to Jennifer Sessions, Amelia Lyons, Todd Shepard, Ethan Katz, Yann Scioldo-Zürcher, Jeannette Miller, Gillian Glaes, Steve Kale, Gary Wilder, Sam Kalman, Aaron Hill, Dana Simmons, Emmanuel Saadia and so many others whose tremendous help and encouragement were as much a testament to their warmth and integrity as it was to their intellect. Special thanks go to colleagues in the History Departments at Pomona College and Claremont Graduate School. I am greatly and forever indebted to my colleagues at Bentley University: Marc Stern, our chair, who provided much departmental support beyond what I thought possible, and added his signature brand of hearty encouragement. Bridie Andrews and Cyrus Veeser gave their brains, time, and generous feedback to help straighten out my thoughts to give me the push I very much needed. I feel incred- ibly lucky to have the support of everyone in my department. I am especially thankful to my students of HI 200 at Bentley who tolerated a very tired professor in the months leading up to the completion of the book. Thanks go to the staff at the Bentley University Library and to Cheryl Weiser and her team: Paviel Guerrero, Alanah Jones, and Ethan Harmon, for the indispensable help they provided throughout the year. I am indebted to the Valente Center for the Humanities whose grant helped support the writing, and to my colleagues at the NEH Valente seminar for their critiques and support. Special thanks go to the Dean of Arts and Sciences at Bentley, Dan Everett, whose generous funds helped support the completion of the book. I would also like to thank the editors at Palgrave Macmillan who have shown more patience than I deserved. I thank the numerous comrades at UCLA: Naomi Taback, Jake Collins, Alex Zevin, Claudia Verhoeven, Kelly Maynard, Chaohua Wang, Todd Henry, and so many others who have equally contrib- uted to my well-being but who cannot all be named here. The support of Kara Murphy, Steve Sawyer, and Cécile Roudeau was inexhaustible at a time when I had so little to give in return. In
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