Title: CLIFFORD ROSENBERG. Policing Paris: The Origins of Modern Immigration Control between the Wars. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press. 2006. Pp. xviii, 241. Cloth $57.50, paper $23.95
Abstract: Clifford Rosenberg has written an original and complex history of immigration control in interwar Paris that “testifies to a vast, sophisticated police bureaucracy that emerged sooner, and played a more important role in Parisians' day-to-day lives, than historians have realized” (p. xiii). He presents this history in two thematic parts. “Immigration and the Ambiguities of Political Policing” takes on the history of immigration control in France, focusing on the interwar period, when hundreds of thousands of immigrants entered the country, primarily Italians, central European Jews, Spaniards, Russians, Armenians, and Algerians. The turning point, Rosenberg argues, was the Great War: in 1912, only twelve full-time employees were at the immigration service, but by 1926, the service was systematized and gigantic, featuring a cross-referenced index card on every immigrant known in Paris. By the end of the interwar period, the great hall of the immigration service held 1.5 million files and 2.5...
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-10-01
Language: en
Type: article
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