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French demographer, anti-Malthusian, advocate of mass immigration in France, coiner of term 'Third World':
http://www.udel.edu/poscir/faculty/M...raladdress.htm
Now it should be understood that at the time there was no anticipation of significant immigration from Muslim countries, but a 1945 law removed ethnicity and national origin as the basis for immigrant recruitment, thus putting French immigration policy firmly in its republican tradition.Near the end of World War II, the great demographer Alfred Sauvy would call for massive immigration to restore France’s demographic well-being. He advocated admission of millions of immigrants. There existed a broad consensus in government circles on the need for immigration for demographic purposes, a trait that distinguished French migration policies from those pursued elsewhere in Europe.
Later, during the war in Algeria, France began receiving Algerians in significant numbers:
After this France began making bilateral agreements with Algeria and other Muslim countries to receive laborers. It was anticipated that they'd repatriate, but things didn't quite work out that way. One wonders if any of this would have been possible though without the advocacy of Alfred Sauvy early on.Meanwhile, it had become easier for Algerian Muslims to travel to metropolitan France. The onset of the war of independence in 1954 increased the internal migration across the Mediterranean. What had become the French Muslim community of North African background figured importantly in the outcome of the conflict in Algeria. Many French citizens of Algerian Muslim background would opt to retain their French citizenship under the terms of the Evian Accords, which led to Algeria’s independence in 1962.
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