Contours d'un reseau administratif "algerien" et construction d'une competence en "affaires musulmanes": Les conseillers techniques pour les affaires musulmanes en metropole (1952-1965)

In: Politix: revue des sciences sociales du politique, Band 19, Heft 76, S. 97-117

Abstract

Some members of an administrative body especially devoted to the colonization in Algeria, the administrators of the civil services of Algeria, are sent in France during the 50's in order to advice the prefects in "muslim affairs" in the regions where Algerians are increasingly immigrating. They build in metropolitan France a Muslim competence in shaping an administrative network with themselves, those they headhunted for the specialised associations, & the Algerians. The specificity of their Algerian competence is maintained with travels in Algeria & different trainings: those where the advisers are trainees & those where they are teachers, this way being recognized as the specialists for anything dealing with Algerians, until 1965. Adapted from the source document.