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Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration, Palais de la Porte Dorée (Paris 12e)
This international conference echoing the exhibition Jews and Muslims, from colonial France to the present day will provide an overview of new ways of approaching the history of relations between Jews and Muslims.
Laure Blévis and Claire Zalc speak on the theme: « Juifs et Musulmans de l’Afrique du Nord sous colonisation française (Algérie, Maroc, Tunisie) au regard de la politique de révision des naturalisations de Vichy »
This paper is part of a work in progress on the denaturalizations carried out by the Vichy regime in the French colonial empire. The aim is to analyze the way in which the policy of revising and withdrawing naturalizations was applied to these two groups. Reflecting on the practices of denaturalization by Vichy allows us to grasp the ways in which the French authorities treated, and distinguished, Jews and Muslims in colonization, by establishing distinct or, on the contrary, unique colonial statuses, and by allowing them, or not, to access the status of French citizen.