2023-10-23 10:30:12
Hakim El Karoui, during a meeting as part of the “great national debate”, at the Elysée, March 18, 2019. LUDOVIC MARIN/AFP
Capping the share of immigrants in social housing to better distribute it across the territory, limiting the share of this social housing in municipalities to 40% to avoid the creation of ghettos, defining a maximum share of immigrants and children of immigrants in priority education, increase the number of adults in public spaces in poor neighborhoods… In a report entitled “The integration of immigrant children”, made public Monday October 23 on its website launched for On the occasion, Desideespour2027.fr, Hakim El Karoui, essayist and former advisor to Matignon, founder of the consulting company Volentia and the Club 21e Siècle, attempts to lay the first stone of a debate intended to fuel the presidential election of 2027.
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While the threat of seeing the far right in power weighs, and while the government wants to pass yet another immigration law, the report looks at the determinants of the socio-economic paths of immigrants and their children. “Everyone is concerned about immigration, but there is no public integration policy”he defends to the Monde.
The finding – supported by data from INSEE, the National Institute of Demographic Studies or the OECD – is not surprising. In a France where more than 20% of the population has a link with immigration – over two generations – they encounter significant social difficulties, “sign of incomplete integration”underlines Mr. El Karoui.
Immigrants thus suffer from a higher rate of poverty than the rest of the population (30%, compared to 14.6% on average); they are, with their children, more often workers and employees (57% and 48% of them, compared to 44% for the majority population); more often unemployed (14% and 13%, compared to 7% of the active population). If there is social ascension from one generation to another, it remains “very limited”. In question: the “degraded socio-economic conditions” of the original environment and « discriminations ». But not only.
Strong investment in the school
The author highlights the differentiated trajectories of immigrants depending on their origins, emphasizing the contribution of communities as a space of « protection » and of “resource”. Thus, the report looks at Portuguese, Turkish and even Asian immigrants and shows the importance of community ties in their children’s access to employment through, in particular, family businesses in construction or catering.
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