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*'''1915-1930'''. Armenian refugees settled largely in Marseilles | *'''1915-1930'''. Armenian refugees settled largely in Marseilles | ||
Thousands of Mennonites came from Switzerland into Alsace. Some Swiss Protestants settled in the Montbéliard area. Many Italians immigrated into the south of France. | *Thousands of Mennonites came from Switzerland into Alsace. | ||
*Some Swiss Protestants settled in the Montbéliard area. | |||
*Many Italians immigrated into the south of France. | |||
*France's population dynamics began to change in the middle of the 19th century, as France joined the '''Industrial Revolution'''. The pace of industrial growth attracted millions of European immigrants over the next century, with especially large numbers arriving from '''Poland, Belgium, Portugal, Italy, and Spain'''. | |||
*In the wake of the '''First World War''', in which France suffered six million casualties, significant numbers of '''workers from French colonies''' came. By 1930, the Paris region alone had a '''North African Muslim''' population of 70,000. | |||
*Right after the Second World War, immigration to France significantly increased. During the period of reconstruction, France lacked labor, and as a result, the French government was eager to '''recruit immigrants coming from all over Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia'''. | |||
*A wave of '''Vietnamese migrated to the country after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu and the Geneva Accords''', which granted Vietnam its independence from France in 1954. These migrants consisted of those who were '''loyal to the colonial government and those married to French colonists'''. Following the partition of Vietnam, '''students and professionals from South Vietnam''' continued to arrive in France. Although many initially returned to the country after a few years, as the Vietnam War situation worsened, a majority decided to remain in France and brought their families over as well. | |||
*This period also saw a significant wave of immigrants from '''Algeria'''. As the Algerian War started in 1954, there were already 200,000 Algerian immigrants in France. After the war, after Algeria gained its independence, the number of Algerian immigrants started to increase drastically. From 1962 to 1975, the Algerian immigrant population increased from 350,000 to 700,000. | |||
*Additionally, the number of '''Pakistani and Japanese immigrants''' also increased during this period. | |||
*There was also a great number of students and workers from '''former French colonies in Africa.''' | |||
*During the 1970s, France simultaneously faced economic crisis and allowed immigrants (mostly from the Muslim world) to permanently settle in France with their families and to acquire French citizenship. It resulted in hundreds of thousands of '''Muslims''', especially to the larger cities, living in subsidized public housing and suffering from very high unemployment rates. Alongside this, France renounced its policy of assimilation, instead pursuing a policy of integration.<ref>'Immigration into France", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_France, accessed 28 April 2021.</ref> | |||
===Armenian Records=== | ===Armenian Records=== | ||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/camp-oddo List of Armenian refugees living at Camp Oddo, Marseille, 1922] | *[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/camp-oddo List of Armenian refugees living at Camp Oddo, Marseille, 1922] | ||