The immigrant cause: territories, activists and organisations in France from the 1960s to the present-day – CAUSIMMI

The object of the CAUSIMMI project is the area of mobilization of the immigrant cause from the years 1960 until today. It aims to study the collective movements, organizations and biographies of activists of this cause, which we define as all the mobilizations aspiring to equal rights and treatment in France, between nationals and foreigners or perceived as such, in various fields: entry and right to stay in France, housing, work, health, police and justice, or treatment by the administration and public action. The project will contribute to the visibility and the memory of the political history of immigration. It will go beyond the tendency to disperse existing monographs, focused on a mobilization, an organization, a current or a period of this immigrant cause, to better articulate them and grasp them transversally. In this field still lacking a tag, CAUSIMMI will thus produce: a monographic database compiling these organizations and indicating for each of them a brief description of their characteristics; typologies of these organizations; maps specifying their locations; organizational charts; timelines. In addition, the CAUSIMMI project will apprehend the immigrant cause from the trajectory of its actors, thanks to a corpus of approximately 500 activists' life courses, necessary for the constitution of a representative panel of the different components of this cause. These biographies will combine an analysis of commitments, a study of family and migration trajectories, training, socio-professional status, religious affiliation, and of course political, union and associative activities in France and, where applicable, in the country. original. A sociobiographical study will be drawn from it. By bringing together all of these elements on a website, CAUSIMMI will offer a global vision of this cause and its developments over time.