Re-homing France’s immigrant workers

法国移民工人的再安置

The Documentary Podcast

2025-07-08

27 分钟
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France’s last foyers – housing for immigrant workers – are set for demolition. But some current residents are worried about what they’ll lose. Hundreds of “foyers” - housing units especially for immigrant workers – were built after World War II. The economy was booming and France needed unskilled labour to help rebuild the country. But since the 1990s there has been a policy to get rid of the old foyers and replace them with a type of social housing. However, residents of the old foyers fear they are going to lose out in this transformation. Carolyn Lamboley has been visiting some foyers around Paris and speaking to those who for decades have called these places home. They fear for the break-up of their communities, for a loss of their culture and the little they have. This episode of The Documentary comes to you from Assignment, investigations and journeys into the heart of global events.
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  • It was while I was reading the local council's magazine where I live in Saint-Denis,

  • a Paris suburb, that a small article caught my eye.

  • It was about the demolition of a foyer de travailleurs migrants,

  • housing built for immigrant workers.

  • Once it's gone, it will be replaced with a new résidence sociale, social housing,

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  • It's too much.

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  • He's 71 years old from Mali in West Africa, but has been living in France for over 50 years.

  • For most of that time, home has been this foyer.

  • Housing built especially for France's immigrant workers.