Le nouveau visage de la France, terre d’immigration (EN)

Anne Chemin

Daily Newspaper LE MONDE December 4, 2009

Article, Web Article

French

For over 150 years, France welcomes immigrants who came first in Europe, the Maghreb and Africa and now Black Africa and Asia. The observation is that nowadays, a quarter of children under age 18 have a maternal grandparents born abroad. The France is now, by thismixing, one of the most multicultural countries.
An interview with Claudine Attias-Donfut sociologist, research manager at the State National Pension Scheme) is added to this article, which has just been published by Stock, with CF Wolff "the fate of immigrant children , a desillusionment of generations.
The article also includes several statistical documents (INED source): The number of immigrants in the whole population / regions of origin: countries thats rise, countries that fall), the integration effort and unemployment figures; and the contribution of immigration to the population of various countries since 1975 (France – reunified Germany – Spain – The United Kingdom – The United States).

« France is an old unconscious country of immigration”. This sentence extracted from Claudine Attias-Donfut’s interview pretty much sums up the contents of the double page of the daily newspaper. This article briefly takes up the history of migratory flows towards “the America of Europe” (G. Noiriel) and the stagnation of those flows since the 1980’s. France has thus seen a phenomenon that is almost unique in Europe, the emergence of a second, third or even a fourth generation. The interview mainly focuses on the integration aspect, the “sense of belonging” of immigrants and their children to France.
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