A major study from France’s premier public research institute found “a society profoundly marked by long-term immigration,” with around a third of the population estimated to have been born abroad or to have been the child or grandchild of immigrants.
Research from the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris has perhaps provided the clearest picture of France’s demographic makeup, a country officially governed by a colourblind doctrine that prohibits the collection of racial or ethnic statistics in its census, making systematic tracking of immigrant groups difficult.
According to the findings, which were based on interviews with 27,000 people in mainland France between 2019 and 2020, one in three people in the country are either migrants themselves or the descendants of immigrants.
The INED study found that 13 per cent were foreign-born, while 11 per cent were the children of immigrants, and 10 per cent were the grandchildren of immigrants, Le Figaro reported.
The authors of the study said that the impact of immigration in France is like “a kaleidoscope whose complexity is continuously expanding”. The research found that 41 per cent of the population have some tie to immigration, whether through personal heritage, marriage, or the marriage of their children.
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Immigration to France is also overwhelmingly non-European. The INED study found that the largest cohort of immigrants aged 18 to 59 at 32 per cent came from the North African Maghreb region, much of which was previously under French colonial rule. Meanwhile, 20 per cent of immigrants hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and 16 per cent from Asia. Just 28 per cent came from other European nations.
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