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In this book Andrea Smith offers a rich account of how Maltese pieds-noirs live a condition of "double exile" in contemporary France: exile from the colonial Algeria in which they grew up and exile from Maltese ethnic origins about which they often know very little. As Smith details, these French citizens increasingly seek to rediscover their Maltese heritage through "pilgrimages" to the island and through participation in settler clubs organized explicitly along ethnic lines. Smith explains this turn toward a Maltese identity that might, at first glance, appear surprising given the lowly status of the Maltese in the hierarchy of French colonial settler society. She reads the embrace of Maltese identity by pieds-noirs in France as a figurative displacement, with Malta standing in for the "real" missing homeland. "The Maltese travel to Malta not to make a liberating journey...