International audienceThis paper examines the social use of immigration history in collective actions by agroup of French activists of North African origin. The analysis is based on a qualitative surveyconducted in the region of Nice (PACA). First, we look at the variety of in-group immigrationmemory repertoires which are resorted to as support for collective action, mobilisation andreaction issues, as well as a means of gaining public recognition. We move onto examining howthose memories and practices contribute to frame two divergent models of organisation andcollective action within the group, namely the ‘commando’ and ‘social club’ models. Across bothmodels, we find that actors converge on using immigration memory as an effective instru...