Un siècle d'immigration étrangère en France

A century of foreign immigration in France, Pierre Milza. The French melting pot is apparently no longer functioning, after performing its role quite well for more than a century. The author describes the recurrent xenophobia, the comparative capacity of the various immigrant groups to become assimilated and the agents of such assimilation : school, religion, political solidarity, industrial work. He concludes not by singling out the religious element, which would make Islam unassimilable, but by emphasizing the increasing decline of industrial employment : that is perhaps what broke the French crucible.Milza Pierre. Un siècle d'immigration étrangère en France. In: Vingtième Siècle, revue d'histoire, n°7, juillet-septembre 1985. Étrangers, immigres, français, sous la direction de Louis Bodin . pp. 3-18