Saturday, October 6, 2007
On October 4th, 2007 the French Senate moved to make a change in the law that would ban the access of undocumented immigrants to public “emergency housing”
«toute personne accueillie dans une structure d'hébergement d'urgence doit pouvoir y demeurer, dès lors qu'elle le souhaite, jusqu'à ce qu'une orientation lui soit proposée si elle peut justifier de la régularité de son séjour sur le territoire dans des conditions définies par décret en Conseil d'Etat. » le Monde/AFP October 6th, 2007.
The next day, after, a series of protests, mobilizations, sit-ins and other contentious performances (Tilly, 2006) by immigrant “associations” (how the French call NGO’s and civil society groups), the Senate withdrew the law project and forced the resignation of the proposal.
Civil society organizations have taken over buildings throughout France demanding that the sans papiers are given access to documents and legal residence.
Furthermore, after the French government set a goal to deport 25,000 illegal immigrants by the end of the year, French families are hiding immigrants without papers in their houses to prevent deportations. Recently at least two people had died while jumping out of their balconies to hide from raids at their apartments.
Chrisafis, Angelique. 2007. "The crackdown" The Guardina UK. Wednesday October 3, 2007
This article at the Guardian of UK reports about this specific issue and it gives a overview of the general issues at stake regarding current immigration to France.
Le Monde/AFP. « Les sans-papiers pourront accéder à l'hébergement d'urgence » October 6th, 2007 http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-823448,36-963727@51-959910,0.html
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