#  Lewis, Mary Dewhurst - The Boundaries of the Republic: Migrant Rights and the Limits of Universalism in France, 1918-1940 

 





January 01, 2007

 

 

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Mary Dewhurst Lewis. Stanford University Press, 2007  
[Publisher's Link](http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=10625) After the devastation of the First World War, France welcomed immigrants on an unprecedented scale. To manage these new residents, the French government devised Europe's first guest worker program, then encouraged family settlements and finally cracked down on all foreigners on the eve of the Second World War. Despite France's famous doctrine of universal rights, these policies were egalitarian only in theory, not in reality. [Read more...](http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=10625)

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  **[Mary Lewis](http://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/mary-lewis)** **Professor of History**

 Mary Lewis is Professor of History at Harvard, and Affiliated Faculty at the [Harvard Law School](http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/11351/Lewis). Her current research interests center around international and imperial history, with particular attention paid to the connections between international relations and social or economic life. She has taught courses on comparative empires, the Modern Mediterranean, Modern France and its Colonial Empire, European capitalism, and nation- and state-building in the modern era, as well as graduate seminars on method.

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