Les déracinés de Cherchell
Camps de regroupement dans la guerre d'Algérie (1954-1962)
Collection : Études et enquêtes historiques
2018, 200 pagesPreface, Alain Blum
General Introduction
Chapter 1. Regrouping the populace: an anti-guerrilla strategy
I. “Population regroupment centres” (CRPs) and prohibited areas
II. A general overview of the CRPs
III. The ALN [Army of national liberation] in the foothills of Cherchell: the first clashes
IV. CRPs in the Cherchell region
Chapter 2. Rural life as lived between traditions and the colonial administration
I. A population made up of Berber-speaking tribes
II. The disappearance of an ancestral tribal society
III. Memories of a rural life
IV. Relations with the colonial administration
Chapter 3. Expulsion, uprooting, dispossession
I. A military imperative
II. The violence of the expulsions
III. Rough living in the camps
Chapter 4. Life in the camps: the view from both sides
I. Military perceptions of life in the camps
II. The camps as seen by the “regrouped”: barbed wire and watchtowers
Chapter 5. Vulnerable population groups
I. The situation of women in the camps
II. From shepherd to pupil: children in the torment of the war
III. Working outside the regroupment centre
Chapter 6. The end of the war
I. The failure of the anti-guerrilla strategy
II. Revolt
III. “All Frenchmen are not of the same seed”
IV. The harkis
Chapter 7. Afterwards
I. Post-war disappointments
II. The difficulty of reintegrating regroupment centre populations
III. A definitive change from the world that was
Chapter 8. Residential trajectories and migrations
I. Forced residential mobility
II. From sedentary life to mobility
Chapter 9. Portraits of the “regrouped” and their diverse fates and fortunes
I. Major life changes
II. Those who remained
III. New futures
IV. Singular figures and multiple trajectories
General conclusion
Bibliography
Appendices
