Politics & Society
Europe once stretched into Algeria
The French Empire’s bid for a European Algeria—and the French Republic’s crusade against an Algerian France
“We had French nationality, but not French citizenship. We were part of Europe, but we were not European. We were immigrants, but not foreigners.” Sitting in a Parisian café, my great-uncle reminisces about when he and his brother answered France’s call for cheap manual labor in the 1950s.