More than one in three French people have an ancestor of foreign origin in their family tree. And the majority of city dwellers have peasant roots. Jews, Russians, Armenians, Poles, Italians, Spanish, Portuguese, Algerians, Moroccans, Tunisians, Turks, Yugoslavs, Malians, Chinese... but also Bretons, Auvergnats, Savoyards: they left their country or region to flee a war, a dictatorship, a genocide or poverty, in the hope of a better life. In factories or mines, on the battlefields, in the countryside and in the cities, they contributed to economic expansion, to the fight for democracy, to the enrichment of our culture. Their history is our history.
Each immigration is introduced by the story of a child of today who mixes daily life, memory and history. Then a documentary synthesis gives the historical or economic references to inscribe this family and singular memory in history.
At the end of the book, a glossary, legal texts and questions allow you to better understand the words and current issues of immigration.