*Stephen Smith is the author of the acclaimed essay "The Scramble for Europe. Young Africa on its way to the Old Continent" (Grasset, 2018).
On the very day of the adoption of the immigration law, December 19, the president of the Medef implicitly considered it necessary that, in thirty years, about 20% of the inhabitants of France will be first-generation immigrants, twice as many as today. "By 2050, unless we reinvent our social and economic model, we will need 3.9million foreign employees," Patrick Martin said on Radio Classique, arguing that "it's not the bosses who are massively asking for immigration, it's the economy."
Of course, he was not heard. On the one hand, France was busy apostrophizing itself about the new era - of controlling immigration or the door shown to immigrants, depending on - that was supposed to inaugurate the said law. In particular, it provides for the deposit of a deposit by students...
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