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“Distributing immigrants to rural areas would only increase the difficulties of our countryside”

2022-09-20T09:38:28.820Z


INTERVIEW – During an intervention before the prefects about the future immigration bill, Emmanuel Macron suggested distributing immigrants differently, especially in rural areas. For the geographer Laurent Chalard, this would amount to relocating the problems of...


Laurent Chalard is a geographer and works at the European Center for International Affairs.

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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.

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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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