We all know Doctor Pangloss. The famous character of Voltaire in Candide forever embodies a blissful providentialism which considers that everything that happens - even the worst disasters - is indeed and good for humanity. In terms of immigration, for forty years, whether demographers, politicians, academics, journalists, bosses, the Pangloss have been legion. Our last title Pangloss is called Bruno Tertrais.
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In his book Le Choc démographique , the political scientist works to refute the theses that he considers catastrophic, roughly that of the "great replacement", and in particular that of Stephen Smith who in his book, The Rush to Europe described Africa as a " waiting room of 1.3 billion inhabitants at the gates of Europe ", which we quickly understand is the main target of the author.
Tertrais floods us with figures to better refute those of the Franco-American journalist. We will remain outside this quarrel; we are aware that we are saying
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