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Abstract
`titrebPost-Colonial Algerian Immigration: Integration in the Face of Exclusion`/titrebBuilding on my doctoral thesis, this essay aims at renewing the history of post-colonial Algerian immigration by studying in depth the lives and experiences of migrants, rather than the views of institutions that were to manage these migrations officially. Through the analysis of these migrants’ professional and domestic trajectories, our main goal is to assess the social and economic integration of this population, which was subject to specific treatment because of its colonial past. It appears that two forms of Algerian migrations have always coexisted: temporary migration and long-term migration. The migrants’ families had difficulties accessing housing, and these constraints have severely restricted their settling down in France. But those who managed to move between the years 1950 and 1970 experienced an overall improvement in their situation. Their deep integration – especially at a local level – explains why the attempts to deport Algerians in the late 1970s failed. Nevertheless, the late 1970s economic crisis started to challenge their economic and social integration.