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According to a demographic study published Thursday by Insee, quelque 10% of the population living in France is “née étrangère à l’étranger”, against 6.5% in 1968. Plus d’un tiers de ces personnes ont acquis la nationality française depuis leur arrivée. Par ailleurs, là où les immigrés étaiten surtout originaires d’Europe du Sud il ya cinquante ans, ils viennent nowreis principalement du Maghreb, d’Afrique ou d’Asie.
Seven million immigrants lived in France in 2021, or 10.3% of the population, according to a demographic study by the Insee published on Thursday, March 30, which explores the evolution of immigration over the past ten years. older generations.
“10.3% of the living population in France was immigrated” in 2021, when a person felt that “the native did not come from the country”, compared to “6.5% in 1968”, writes the National Institute of Statistics et des études économiques dans his document entitled “Immigrés and descendants of immigrants in France”. Plus d’un tiers (36%) of these people have acquired French nationality since their arrival.
Among the descendants of immigrants, ceux de la deuxième generation sont plus de 50% à n’avoir qu’un seul parent immigré, et ceux de la troisième génération (qui ont au moins un grand-parent immigré) sont neuf sur ten à n’avoir qu’un ou deux grandparents-parents imigrés.
Maghreb, Africa or Asia
Les origines, elles, se diversifient. Là où les immigrés étaiten surtout originaires d’Europe du Sud il ya cinquante ans, ils viennent nowreis principalment du Maghreb, d’Afrique ou d’Asie.
Thus, immigrants from Spain and Italy have increased from 543,000 in 2011 to 531,000 in 2021, while Maghreb now represents 2 million people (1.63 million in 2011). In total, almost half of immigrants in 2021 are from Africa (3.31 million out of 6.96). Women now represent half (52%) of this population (44% in 1968).
Immigration is concentrated in large agglomerations, according to the study, according to which 20% of the Parisian population is immigrated, 32% in Seine-Saint-Denis.
With AFP