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

Published Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 241 pages) : illustrations, maps 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 Summary "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 other materials, Clifford Rosenberg shows how in the years after the Great War the French police, terrified by the Bolshevik Revolution and the specter of immigrant criminality, became the first major force anywhere systematically to enforce distinctions of citizenship and national origins. As the French capital emerged as a haven for refugees, dissidents, and workers from throughout Europe and across the Mediterranean in the 1920s, police officers raided immigrant neighborhoods to scare illegal aliens into registering with authorities and arrested those whose papers were not in order. The police began to concentrate on colonial workers from North Africa, tracking these workers with a special police brigade and segregating them in their own hospital when they fell ill. Transformed by their enforcement, legal categories that had existed for hundreds of years began to matter as never before. They determined whether or not families could remain together and whether people could keep their jobs or were forced to flee. During World War II, identity controls marked out entire populations for physical destruction. The treatment of foreigners during the Third Republic, Rosenberg contends, shaped the subsequent treatment of Jews by Vichy. At the same time, however, he argues that the new methods of identification pioneered between the wars are more directly relevant to the present day. They created forms of inclusion and inequality that remain pervasive, as industrial welfare states around the world find themselves compelled to provide benefits to their own citizens and recruit foreign nationals to satisfy their labor needs."--Ebsco Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-231) and index Notes Print version record SUBJECT Paris gnd Subject Police -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century Citizenship -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century Immigrants -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century Noncitizens -- France -- Paris -- History -- 20th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Noncitizens Citizenship Emigration and immigration -- Government policy Immigrants Police Einwanderung Polizeiliche Überwachung Kontrolle Polizei Einwanderer Politie. Immigranten. Burgerschap. Invandrare -- historia -- Paris -- Frankrike -- 1900-talet. Noncitizens. SUBJECT Paris (France) -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 20th century Subject France -- Paris Paris Parijs. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501732324 1501732323

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