The Enigma of Undocumented Algerians Immigrants in France
The undocumented Algerian immigrants the ethnologist met in 2000s ask him a riddle. The aim of this article is to make a report on the construction of a multilocated ethnography in the case of irregular Algerian migrations and of what it makes you understand about the sense of these migrations. The historical continuity of the migration like the “daughter of colonialism”, Algerian geopolitical conjuncture and France’s immigration policy represent the frame and the context of a so-called irregular migration. Jammed in the contradiction between a security policy and a humanitarian treatment, these migrants waver between the illegal immigrants appearance, the victim or the defrauder. But we also analyse how the figure of the economic, familial or victim migrant can be mixed and doubled with a migratory project in search of recognition and social success here and there.