Algerian migrant workers in France returned home carrying radical political ideas.
Evidence
But usually they were forced to live in the worst city slums of Paris or Marseilles, in family-less celibacy and dispiriting isolation in overcrowded tenement houses. Their contacts with French life would often be limited to members of the Communist Party and other disgruntled proletarian militants, so that when they returned to Algeria they brought with them seeds of more coherent discontent, awaiting germination. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 187
Categorization
- XREF: Directly feeds the reader’s goal of tracing how revolutionary ideology spread and was ‘fought back’ between France and colonial subjects. — connects to: Returning Muslim war veterans radicalized by French unfulfilled promises and Marxist techniques; The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues; Algerian migrant wages in France funded F.L.N. weapons against French conscripts (+1 more)
- SEED: Angle: the migrant return circuit as a vector for revolutionary ideology — an underappreciated mechanism of decolonization.
Related
- Returning Muslim war veterans radicalized by French unfulfilled promises and Marxist techniques (similarity 0.85)
- Algerian workers in France lived in squalor while remitting vital billions home. (similarity 0.82)
- Disillusioned war veterans radicalized into a new violent Algerian generation. (similarity 0.81)
- Algerian immigrant remittances helped fund the F.L.N.’s war against France. (similarity 0.80)
- Sétif radicalized returning Muslim soldiers into future F.L.N. leaders (similarity 0.79)
- The Algerian War’s aftermath migrated with émigrés into France’s banlieues (similarity 0.79)
- France’s rejection of moderate Algerian reformers radicalized them into revolutionaries (similarity 0.79)
- French repression pushed postwar Algerian nationalism toward armed extremism (similarity 0.78)
- European liberal intellectuals in Algeria faced impossible conscience conflicts as the war radicalized. (similarity 0.78)
- Rural Algerians underwent a profound revolutionary politicization that French administrators could not reverse. (similarity 0.78)