People walk down the Champs Elysees avenue, in Paris, Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2021. The French government has announced new COVID-19 measures in an effort to curb the spread of the virus.
But authorities stopped short Monday of imposing drastic restrictions before New Year's Eve. Two landmark new studies in France are bursting myths about immigration at a time when xenophobic far-right discourse has gained ground. They show that the children of immigrants are increasingly melting into French society but some with African and Asian backgrounds face persistent discrimination.
"As a child of immigrants my parents, from their experience, told me that I needed to do more than others to succeed," Simmou told The Associated Press. One of the reports found that a large swath of France's population has an immigrant ancestor -- an estimated 32 per cent of people under 60 -- and that children and grandchildren of immigrants are increasingly integrated into French society.
"Population with immigrant backgrounds share a profound bond with the population who have no direct immigrant parentage. In every family, people have a less or more direct link with immigration," Simon told The AP.It found that 66 per cent of people with at least one immigrant parent are married to people without recent immigrant heritage, while nine out of 10 people of France's third generation of immigrant families have only one or two immigrant grandparents.
And getting jobs is harder, too: 60 per cent of those with non-European roots hold intermediate or high-level jobs, compared with 70 per cent of French people without direct immigrant kinship."Several surveys, data and audit studies backed up that hiring is not favorable to minorities, and they experience discrimination. France is pretty bad regarding this issue, compared to other European countries," he said.
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