Saturday, April 2, 2022

France Shifts Right

France’s Far Right Turn
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/31/magazine/new-french-right.html
A rising nationalist faction has grown its coalition by appealing to Catholic identity and anti-immigrant sentiment — and reshaped the country’s race for president. 


Migration Talking Points Surge in France, but Not Migration
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/02/world/europe/french-election-immigration.html
The result is that France’s immigration population is much less diversified than in other rich nations. In 2019, more than 40 percent of all arrivals came from Africa, especially Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, according to government data.
That lack of diversity, coupled with the concentration of new immigrants in urban areas like Paris, fuels anxieties related to immigration, said Patrick Weil, a historian of immigration who teaches at Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris and at Yale.