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==Finding the Town of Origin in France== | ==Finding the Town of Origin in France== | ||
If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in France, see [[France Finding Town of Origin|'''France Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | If you are using emigration/immigration records to find the name of your ancestors' town in France, see [[France Finding Town of Origin|'''France Finding Town of Origin''']] for additional research strategies. | ||
== Immigration into France == | |||
*'''1618-1648'''. Many Swiss emigrants come into Alsace-Lorraine as a result of the Thirty Years War. | |||
*'''1755-1763'''. Acadians (French-Canadians) were exiled. Many return to France. | |||
*'''1848-1850'''. German revolutionaries took refuge in Bas-Rhin. | |||
*'''1831-1870'''. Polish refugees settled in Bas-Rhin. | |||
*'''1915-1930'''. Armenian refugees settled largely in Marseilles | |||
*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> | |||
===Armenia=== | |||
====Armenia Online Sources==== | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/camp-oddo List of Armenian refugees living at Camp Oddo, Marseille, 1922] | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/passeports-nansen Passport Nansen: list of Armenians from Marseille and its region having applied (1926-1946)] | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/prelature List of Baptismal Certificates - Armenian Prelature of the South of France] | |||
====Armenia Background==== | |||
The modern Armenian diaspora was formed largely after World War I as a result of the Armenian Genocide.The Armenian Genocide (other names) was the systematic mass murder and ethnic cleansing of around one million ethnic Armenians from Anatolia and adjoining regions by the Ottoman Empire. Although many Armenians perished during the Armenian Genocide, some of the Armenians who managed to escape, established themselves in various parts of the world.<ref>"Armenian diaspora", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_diaspora#Population_by_country, accessed 29 April 2021.</ref> There are an estimated 300,000 to 600,000 people of Armenian descent in France today.<ref>"Armenian population by country", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_population_by_country, accessed 29 April 2021.</ref> | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/camp-oddo List of Armenian refugees living at Camp Oddo, Marseille, 1922] | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/passeports-nansen Passport Nansen: list of Armenians from Marseille and its region having applied (1926-1946)] | |||
*[https://webaram.com/biblio/identite/prelature List of Baptismal Certificates - Armenian Prelature of the South of France] | |||
== Emigration from France == | == Emigration from France == | ||