“Paris convinced itself that the country was an integral part of its treasured identity. While Mali might’ve been a useful land to pillage, Algeria was France, and France was Algeria. This was official French doctrine.” Opinion | rallahoum
France did not just colonise Algeria for 132 years — it also sought to erase it./ Photo: Reuters / Photo: AP
To be sure, this affects members of other diaspora communities. Integration, or assimilation, is just as contentious an issue for those whose ancestors hail from Senegal or Ivory Coast, two other former French colonies.Still, Algeria’s case is peculiar, because France did not just colonise Algeria for 132 years — it also sought to erase it.
This was the case in late 2021, when President Emmanuel Macron stated that Algeria, as a state, had never existed before the arrival of the French in 1830. Algerian workers would move to France temporarily to make up for the country’s labour shortage, leaving once they were no longer needed. By 1965, three years after Algerian independence, more than 500,000 Algerians wereFrench policymakers couldn’t foresee that they would remain in France all those years later. Moreover, nobody could have imagined that they would get married and have children to whom France was home.
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