Prefect, inspector general of administration, Michel Auboin was, from 2009 to 2013, director of the integration of foreigners and naturalizations at the Ministry of the Interior. In 2016, he submitted to Prime Minister Manuel Valls a report on the situation in the suburbs. He co-authored with Jean Tulard a History of the Police. He now publishes Le Défi d'être français (Presses de la Cité).
THE FIGARO. - According to a recent survey, more than two-thirds of French people are concerned about immigration. Do you understand them?
Michel AUBOUIN. - It is not immigration that is at issue, but integration. Our legal provisions impose French nationality on all foreigners who settle permanently, even if they do not accept the rules! While naturalization is the outcome of successful integration, the same is not true of "automatic" access to nationality. Everyone understands that the integration of a European immigrant is not of the same nature as...
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