John W.P. Veugelers is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. He has written widely on the far right, immigration politics, social movements, and voluntary associations in Canada, France, and Italy. The recipient of awards for outstanding teaching at the University of Toronto, Veugelers has been a visiting professor at universities in Africa, Asia, and Europe, and a visiting fellow at the Camargo Foundation in France.

• DedicationAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsPrefaceIntroductionPart One: Sedimentation of a Political Affinity Chapter 1. Settler Relations and Identities in Colonial AlgeriaChapter 2. The Unmaking of the Colony Part Two: Ex-colonials in the Metropole Chapter 3. From Newcomers to Incipient ConstituencyChapter 4. New Political ConfigurationsPart Three: Shift in Opportunities Chapter 5. Gaullism Loses Ground Chapter 6. Building a Base for the National FrontChapter 7. The Far Right Organizes in the VarChapter 8. A City under the Far RightPart Four: The Far Right Endures Chapter 9. Discourse and PoliticsChapter 10. Transmitting a Far Right AffinityChapter 11. Holding Off the National FrontConclusionAppendixReferences

Empires legacy takes a fresh look at contemporary right-wing populism. Brushing aside economic explanations, it puts forward an important and neglected factor, the affinity with the far right that developed among settlers in Algeria...The central assumption of the book is that this state of mind stayed alive within the many voluntary associations the repatriates set up to defend their claims. Not only did these networks allow for a successful lobbying at the local level, they also had a deep socializing impact on the individuals, insulating their members from the rest of the population and saving intact their memories of the past and their resentment. The closer their ties with these associations, the more receptive they would be to the nativist and anti-immigrant platform of a party like the Front national (FN) after its electoral take off in the 1980s, when their political demand met the adequate political supply.