Paris, Oct 9 (360info) Immigration is a highly contentious and contested issue in France. During the past 20 years, 12 laws have been introduced towards bringing in an ever more restrictive approach to immigration. And yet every poll survey keeps showing the French want ever stricter border control.

That is despite France no longer being a major destination country anymore. Although 10.7 per cent of its population is foreign born, the annual immigration rate into France (the ratio between immigrant inflows and the total population of the country) amounted to 0.37 per cent in 2023 and is among the lowest in OECD countries.

It is three times as low as countries such as Belgium (1.06 per cent), Canada (1.06 per cent) or Germany (1.37 per cent).

A closer examination of the apparent polarisa

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