The Immigration Museum in Paris will open its doors to visitors tomorrow, Tuesday, at a time when the debate over immigrants, the new immigration law, and even the 1968 agreement between Algeria and France has not stopped. The director of the palace, Constance Riviere, on immigration, stresses that prejudice is a form of ignorance.
And the French news agency quoted Constance Rivière as saying, “Immigration is an integral part of the history of France, of a common history. In each of these histories, we show the situation of foreigners and the way they contributed to making the history of France.” This approach is justified by the fact that “one out of every three French people today is an immigrant, or the son of an immigrant or the grandson of an immigrant.”
The museum, which opens its doors tomorrow, Tuesday, after 3 years of closure due to modifications to its design, highlights the gradual penetration of immigration into all areas of society, following a chronology based on eleven major time stations that extend from the year 1685 to the present day. In the context, the historian and one of the scientific coordinators of the museum, Marian Amar, said that its administration “was keen to present this history in all its complexities and the history of the people who were originally in France, who are the French, and those who come as immigrants,” adding that the goal is to weave these two stories together, so that They do not happen in parallel, but together.”
The museum shows the participation of foreigners in the war effort in 1917, the independence of Algeria in 1962, the repercussions of decolonization, and the mobilization in 1973 for the rights of foreign workers, through maps, photos, paintings and other documents on the main events that transformed immigration into integration.
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