The Centre d'Accueil Nord-Africain: social welfare and the ‘problem' of Muslim youth in Marseille, 1950–1975

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 444-470
Author(s):  
Dustin Alan Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Second World War ◽  
North African ◽  
World War ◽  
French Society ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Muslim Youth ◽  
Before And After ◽  
African Youth ◽  
Second World

Abstract In recent years, historians have paid increasing attention to social welfare initiatives undertaken in post-Second World War France to integrate Muslim Algerian migrants into French society and the legacies of these initiatives after decolonization. This article engages with this field of research by focusing on a topic it has largely ignored—the so-called ‘problem' of the integration of Muslim youth. The central point of focus is the Centre d'Accueil Nord-Africain (CANA), a private welfare association founded in Marseille in 1950 that well into the mid-1970s considered the integration of male Muslim North African youth its central objective. In exploring the origins and operations of the CANA over a roughly twenty-five-year period, this article offers new insights into issues of continuity and change related to the target, approach and objectives of integrationist social welfare for Muslim North Africans in France before and after decolonization.

Continuity of Y chromosome haplotypes in the population of Southern Poland before and after the Second World War

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 134-140 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcin Woźniak ◽  
Tomasz Grzybowski ◽  
Jarosław Starzyński ◽  
Tomasz Marciniak
Keyword(s):  
Y Chromosome ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Southern Poland ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Second World

Remnants of War as a Legal Problem in the Light of the Libyan Case

1984 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 386-401
Author(s):  
Karl Josef Partsch
Keyword(s):  
Near East ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Armed Conflicts ◽  
Land Mines ◽  
Legal Problem ◽  
North African ◽  
World War ◽  
Canal Zone ◽  
The North ◽  
Second World

More than 30 years after the end of hostilities in the Second World War, 13 governments have confirmed the presence on their territories of large amounts of the material remnants of war, mostly land mines. They can be found in all the countries affected by the North African campaign of the Axis powers in 1940-1943, namely, Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia, as well as in Malta, Norway, Poland and even Australia. Armed conflicts that have taken place at a later time, for example, those in Vietnam, the Suez Canal Zone, the Sinai and other regions in the Near East, have created similar dangers, and there is no reason to believe that present and future conflicts will be any different.

scholarly journals ‘Smashed by the National Health’? A Closer Look at the Demise of the Pioneer Health Centre, Peckham

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 250-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Conford
Keyword(s):  
National Health ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
County Council ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Cast Doubt ◽  
The Times ◽  
Second World

The Pioneer Health Centre, based in South London before and after the Second World War, remains a source of interest for advocates of a positive approach to health promotion in contrast with the treatment of those already ill. Its closure in 1950 for lack of funds has been blamed on the then recently established National Health Service, but this article argues that such an explanation is over-simplified and ignores a number of other factors. The Centre had struggled financially during the 1930s and tried to gain support from the Medical Research Council. The Council appeared interested in the Centre before the war, but was less sympathetic in the 1940s. Around the time of its closure and afterwards, the Centre was also involved in negotiations with London County Council; these failed because the Centre’s directors would not accept the changes which the Council would have needed to make. Unpublished documents reveal that the Centre’s directors were uncompromising and that their approach to the situation antagonised their colleagues. Changes in medical science also worked against the Centre. The success of sulphonamide drugs appeared to render preventive medicine less significant, while the development of statistical techniques cast doubt on the Centre’s experimental methods. The Centre was at the heart of the nascent organic farming movement, which opposed the rapid growth of chemical cultivation. But what might be termed ‘chemical triumphalism’ was on the march in both medicine and agriculture, and the Centre was out of tune with the mood of the times.

The art of global comparisons

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Clunas
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Chinese Art ◽  
World War ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Second World

This chapter considers comparison made hitherto between Western and Chinese art. Mieke Bal has argued that comparison becomes a ground for relative judgement; it establishes hierarchies and distracts from looking. The chapter considers attitudes to Chinese art before and after the Second World War. Chinese art was part of the syllabus before and after that war, and was excluded thereafter. It was relegated to the marginal place of the exotic arts. Mieke Bal has argued that comparison should not be an instrument of judgement, but a source of differentiation.

Maladie et guérison dans les groupes pentecôtistes de l' Italie méridionale

1987 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-474
Author(s):  
Maria Pia Di Bella
Keyword(s):  
Religious Practice ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Other ◽  
World War ◽  
Healing Touch ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Second World ◽  
Founding Myth

Malady and healing touch a new member of the Pentacostal groups of meridional Italy... born essentially after the Second World War... at two different stages of his existence: before and after his integration. The first marks his passage from the world of "the wicked " to that of "the good" and the second his incor poration. If one trial will be lived by the believer as a founding myth of his religious practice, the other will make way for collec tive prayers which will reinforce the solidarity of the group faced with this menace while at the same time giving it the occasion to perpetuate itself.

European defence before and after the ‘Turn of the Tide’

1993 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 409-419
Author(s):  
Beatrice Heuser
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
New Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Before And After ◽  
East And West ◽  
Second World

The last fifty years were bloody and dismal for many war-torn regions of the world. The end of the Second World War ushered in a new era of local and ‘limited’ wars throughout Asia, Africa and Latin America. Hardly a day went by without a war, civil or international, claiming its victims somewhere on our planet. Yet Europe experienced a ‘Long Peace’ (J. L. Gaddis). The direct confrontation of the superpowers, the Soviet and US tanks on either side of the inner German border, immunized Europe from the plague of war. In the great wrestling match between East and West, Europe was the prime prize, and too much was at stake for all sides to allow any wars, even minor wars, to erupt anywhere on this continent.1

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