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Policing Paris - The Origins of Modern Immigration Control Between the Wars (Hardcover)
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Policing Paris - The Origins of Modern Immigration Control Between the Wars (Hardcover)
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The surveillance of immigrants and potential terrorists preoccupies
leaders throughout the industrialized world. Yet these concerns are
hardly new. Policing Paris examines a critical moment in the
history of immigration control and political surveillance. Drawing
on massive police archives and other materials, Clifford Rosenberg
shows how in the years after the Great War the French police,
terrified by the Bolshevik Revolution and the specter of immigrant
criminality, became the first major force anywhere systematically
to enforce distinctions of citizenship and national origins. As the
French capital emerged as a haven for refugees, dissidents, and
workers from throughout Europe and across the Mediterranean in the
1920s, police officers raided immigrant neighborhoods to scare
illegal aliens into registering with authorities and arrested those
whose papers were not in order. The police began to concentrate on
colonial workers from North Africa, tracking these workers with a
special police brigade and segregating them in their own hospital
when they fell ill. Transformed by their enforcement, legal
categories that had existed for hundreds of years began to matter
as never before. They determined whether or not families could
remain together and whether people could keep their jobs or were
forced to flee. During World War II, identity controls marked out
entire populations for physical destruction. The treatment of
foreigners during the Third Republic, Rosenberg contends, shaped
the subsequent treatment of Jews by Vichy. At the same time,
however, he argues that the new methods of identification pioneered
between the wars are more directly relevant to the present day.
They created forms of inclusion and inequality that remain
pervasive, as industrial welfare states around the world find
themselves compelled to provide benefits to their own citizens and
recruit foreign nationals to satisfy their labor needs.
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