History of immigration in France from the end of the 19th century to nowadays

Ralph Schor

1998 Armand Colin France

Book

French

Immigration has deeply marked the history of France.
Until the mid-twentieth century, the newcomers were mostly from Europe, then came the Africans and Asians. Since the 50s, our country, suffering from a deep and old demographic deficit exacerbated by the heavy casualties of World Wars, received a growing number of immigrants. This workforce that was essential to economic growth was joined by soldiers from the colonies come to defend metropolitan France,, and many refugees because of political or racial persecution.
Immigrants and their descendants have enriched the French population of about ten million people in just over a century. The book traces the history of this vast phenomenon of the late nineteenth century to today, in terms of demographic, economic, social, legal, political and military.

A particular attention is paid to relations between French and immigrants, daily life, the integration process, the weight of the economy controlled by the alternation of prosperity and crisis of war and peace, stability and change.
This study makes comprehensible the current situation by shedding linght on the complex issue of immigration which is one of the fundamental problems of French society.

Marika Kovacs
Frédéric Rousselle

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