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SUMMARY:The Kabyle Diaspora's Politics\; Articulating Nativism and Indigen
 eity in France - Jonathan Harriss\, University of Cambridge
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CONTACT:Charlotte Lemanski
DESCRIPTION:The xenophobic and particularly Islamophobic attitudes of Fran
 ce’s nativist-populist Right are particularly directed at France’s lar
 ge Maghrebi postcolonial diaspora. However\, part of this Maghrebi diaspor
 a defines itself not as Arab\, but as Kabyle. The Kabyle diaspora is home 
 to a national independence movement\, the Provisional Government of Kabyli
 a (GPK). In its search for political allies\, the GPK highlights the Kabyl
 e commitment to ‘Republican values’ such as laïcité\, gender equalit
 y\, and democracy - playing on colonial-era stereotypes that oppose Kabyle
 s and Arabs. These Kabyle nationalists have developed an ambivalent positi
 oning in relation to progressive and reactionary forms of nativism\, where
 in they oppose ‘colonial Arabo-Islamism’ in North Africa as Indigenous
  people\, but also articulate an anti-Islamist\, anti-Arab stance that mak
 es their discourse attractive to figures on the French Right. The GPK has 
 adopted a nativist-populism of its own to project its claim to sovereignty
  in the name of the Kabyle nation. Drawing on ethnographic research conduc
 ted 2015-2017\, this paper argues that the Kabyle diaspora’s leaders pos
 ition draw some advantages from French nativist-populist discourse\, but i
 s simultaneously opposed to the anti-immigration and racist elements which
  threaten it
LOCATION:Hardy Building (Downing Site) Room 101
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