Description: The Boundaries of the RepublicMigrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 Author(s): Mary Dewhurst Lewis Format: Hardback Publisher: Stanford University Press, United States Imprint: Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 9780804755825, 978-0804755825 Synopsis After the devastation of the First World War, France welcomed immigrants on an unprecedented scale. To manage these new residents, the French government devised Europe's first guest worker program, then encouraged family settlements and finally cracked down on all foreigners on the eve of the Second World War. Despite France's famous doctrine of universal rights, these policies were egalitarian only in theory, not in reality. Mary Dewhurst Lewis uncovers the French Republic's hidden history of inequality as she reconstructs the life stories of immigrants?from their extraordinary successes to their sometimes heartbreaking failures as they attempted to secure basic rights. Situating migrants' lives within dramatic reversals in the economy, politics, and international affairs, Lewis shows how factors large and small combined to shape immigrant rights. At once an arresting account of European social and political unrest in the 1920s and 1930s and an expos? of the origins of France's enduring conflicts over immigration, The Boundaries of the Republic is an important reflection on both the power and the fragility of rights in democratic societies.
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Book Title: The Boundaries of the Republic
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: History
Item Height: 229 mm
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940
Type: Textbook
Author: Mary Dewhurst Lewis
Item Width: 152 mm
Format: Hardcover
