Mémoires d’immigrés (”Memories of Immigrants” by Bakar)
The video below is by Bakar, the same artist responsible for Les Gens Comme Eux (People Like Them). The French immigration narrative is an interesting one for a number of reasons. When France lost over 2 million citizens to WWI and WWII French officials felt the best solution was immigration. Some 30 years later after the jobs dried up, they sung a very different tune.
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