Policing Paris : the origins of modern immigration control between the wars /

"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...

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Main Author: Rosenberg, Clifford D., 1969-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: immigration and the state
  • Immigration and the ambiguities of political policing. The evolution of immigration control ; The watershed ; "Round up the usual suspects"
  • Surveillance, assistance, and exclusion. Race and immigration ; The colonial consensus ; Open city or police state? ; Colonial assistance and the Franco-Muslim hospital
  • Epilogue: 1942, 1961, and beyond.