Laurent Chalard is a geographer and works at the European Center for International Affairs. Find him on his
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LE FIGARO. - According to Emmanuel Macron, our policy of welcoming newcomers to the poorest neighborhoods is "absurd". Do you share his observation?
Laurent Chalard. -
Given the bad initial diagnosis of the President of the Republic, the question does not arise in this way.
Indeed, France having no policy of welcoming newcomers, the latter preferentially go to the territories where their congeners are already present, providing them with networks of mutual aid and the possibility of obtaining employment opportunities. , following the logic of the migratory network, which mechanically leads them to go to the working-class neighborhoods of large metropolises or medium-sized towns, which play the role of an airlock with foreigners.
So there is no absurdity in the current situation, whether we…
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