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The most obvious advantage of migratory labor for the developed countries is in relation to unemployment. When recession strikes, unemployed workers are shipped back to their home lands, and the economic and political consequences of their discontent fall to the governments of these countries. As John Berger points out in...

Author: By Jonathan Zeitlin, | Title: Come Like the Dust, Go With the Wind | 3/25/1976 | See Source »

It seems obvious to me that the Crimson deliberately encourages discontent with the Quad. This irritating prejudice showed up again in your extremely biased editorial of March 16, where you discuss "the problem of the Quad Houses' unpopularity" as if it were a terminal disease, and assume, quite unjustifiably, that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WASTELAND | 3/18/1976 | See Source »

It is easy to exaggerate Algeria's self sufficiency today because economic progress and prosperity are more visible than their impediments. French townhouses, though getting shabby, still create the aura of opulence, and all around them new roads, hospitals, apartment buildings and factories are going up. What you do not...

Author: By Emily Apter, | Title: The Veil Rises Slowly and Frenchness Lingers | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

This "discontent" is difficult to define, but you can feel it as you walk down Didouche Mourade, the main boulevard in Algiers. Packs of young men sit on the iron rails that line the street. Many do not have money because they are unemployed, unequipped with the technical skills Algeria...

Author: By Emily Apter, | Title: The Veil Rises Slowly and Frenchness Lingers | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

Discontent is further aggravated by the government's censorship of political opposition groups, media and art. Opposition groups are strictly controlled. While I was there, wild rumors were circulating through the university to the effect that seven students had been shot by the police. These students were reportedly members of...

Author: By Emily Apter, | Title: The Veil Rises Slowly and Frenchness Lingers | 3/16/1976 | See Source »

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