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From colonisers to refugees: narratives and representations of the French settlers of Algeria.

从殖民者到难民：阿尔及利亚法国定居者的叙述和表现。

基本信息

批准号：
AH/R006997/1
负责人：
Fiona Barclay
金额：
$ 25.76万
依托单位：
University of Stirling
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Fellowship
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2018 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FR006997%2F1
关键词：
colonisers refugees narratives representations French

项目摘要

The project examines the intersection of refugee migration and colonial history, both contentious issues within contemporary French public life. Focusing primarily on the French colonial settlers from Algeria repatriated en masse to France as refugees in 1962, it will expose the roots of France's most urgent current social issues, demonstrating how the settlers are part of a longer, connected history of the Mediterranean, in which questions of culture define the experience of refugees and the response of host societies. This is the first systematic study in English of representations of and by the French settlers of Algeria in a relational framework joining the fields of settler colonialism, and refugee and diaspora studies. Furthermore, it will bring together academics, artists and professionals to analyse comparatively the experiences of Algeria's settlers together with refugees fleeing former settler colonies and post-war situations in Germany, Angola, ex-Yugoslavia, and those having recently crossed the Mediterranean from Syria. Evidence-based academic analysis of the experiences of forced migration presented in an accessible form is now urgently needed to foster public understanding, and the findings will be widely disseminated in a broad range of accessible media.The community of settler origin repatriated in 1962 has been a powerful political lobby in calling for a positive assessment of the nation's colonial past, a sensitive subject in France even today. To fully grasp the impact of the colonial past on present-day society, this population must also be understood relationally, as they cannot be not easily categorised. They were French citizens but many had non-French origins and had never visited France; they were regarded as exploitative colonisers, but most were primarily working-class who became refugees; they were white Catholics but spoke a North African patois and were regarded with suspicion by French mainlanders. The project will address this paradoxical dimension by examining the community through the prism of two distinct fields of study: 1) settler colonialism, a burgeoning field of primarily Anglophone study which has been little applied to French colonial history; and 2) refugee and forced migration studies, which emphasise that the post-displacement identity of a community is shaped by the experience of host country reception, and exile. This will also be explored in a broader timeframe from the colonization of Algeria by pioneers from across Europe, through the forced migrations of twentieth-century Europe, to the current Mediterranean migrant crisis. The project will 1) map and evaluate the traces of Algerian settler colonial culture within mainstream French culture; 2) identify the contextual and relational factors which shape the experience of migration for both settler refugees and the host society and 3) set the repatriation of Algerian settlers within a wider context of Mediterranean migration. These will be achieved through interdisciplinary analysis of a range of cultural representations including witness testimony, literature, film, graphic novels, autobiography, print media, documentary, campaigning websites and music in order to examine how this community make sense of their own experiences, and the host country's response. The project leads the development of the emerging field of settler colonial studies, and also provides new directions in studies of refugees and forced migrants, contributing to scholarship on questions of national identity, memory, diaspora, nostalgia, state authority and political violence, trauma, melancholy, terrorism, religion, and intergenerational transmission of memory. Working with a range of museum, artistic, local government and academic partners and practitioners, the outputs will communicate the contextualised testimonies of former settlers and refugees to the public, with the aim of fostering understanding of the experiences of migration and integration.

该项目考察了难民移民和殖民历史的交集，这两个问题在当代法国公共生活中都是有争议的问题。它主要关注1962年作为难民从阿尔及利亚集体遣返到法国的法国殖民定居者，它将揭示法国当前最紧迫的社会问题的根源，展示定居者是地中海更悠久、更紧密联系的历史的一部分，在这段历史中，文化问题决定了难民的经历和收容社会的反应。这是第一次在一个关系框架中系统地研究阿尔及利亚的法国定居者和法国定居者的表现，这些关系框架结合了定居者殖民主义以及难民和侨民研究领域。此外，它还将汇集学者、艺术家和专业人士，比较分析阿尔及利亚定居者、逃离德国、安哥拉、前南斯拉夫的前定居者殖民地和战后局势的难民以及最近从叙利亚越过地中海的难民的经历。现在迫切需要以可获得的形式对强迫移徙的经历进行循证的学术分析，以促进公众理解，调查结果将在广泛的可获得的媒体上广泛传播。1962年被遣返的定居者原籍社区一直是呼吁对国家殖民历史进行积极评估的强大政治游说团体，即使在今天，这也是法国的一个敏感话题。为了充分了解殖民历史对当今社会的影响，还必须从关系上理解这一群体，因为他们不能轻易地归类。他们是法国公民，但许多人没有法国血统，从未去过法国；他们被视为剥削性殖民者，但大多数主要是成为难民的工人阶级；他们是白人天主教徒，但说北非方言，受到法国大陆人的怀疑。该项目将通过两个不同研究领域的棱镜来研究社区，以解决这个矛盾的方面：1)定居者殖民主义，这是一个主要以英语为母语的新兴研究领域，很少应用于法国殖民史；2)难民和强迫移民研究，强调一个社区流离失所后的身份认同是由东道国接收和流亡的经历塑造的。还将在更广泛的时间范围内探讨这一问题，从来自欧洲各地的拓荒者对阿尔及利亚的殖民，到20世纪欧洲的强迫移民，再到目前的地中海移民危机。该项目将1)绘制和评估法国主流文化中阿尔及利亚定居者殖民文化的痕迹；2)确定影响定居者难民和收容社会移民经历的背景因素和关系因素；3)将阿尔及利亚定居者的遣返置于地中海移民的更广泛背景下。这些将通过对一系列文化表现形式的跨学科分析来实现，这些文化表现形式包括证人证词、文学、电影、漫画小说、自传、印刷媒体、纪录片、活动网站和音乐，以检查这个社区如何理解他们自己的经历以及东道国的反应。该项目引领了定居者殖民研究这一新兴领域的发展，也为难民和被迫移民的研究提供了新的方向，促进了关于民族身份、记忆、散居海外、怀旧、国家权威和政治暴力、创伤、忧郁、恐怖主义、宗教和记忆代际传递等问题的学术研究。与一系列博物馆、艺术、地方政府和学术合作伙伴和从业人员合作，这些成果将向公众传达前定居者和难民的背景证词，目的是促进对移徙和融合经历的理解。