Study Report: Algerians tend nowadays to shun travelling to France

According to the French national institute of statistics (INSEE), there has been a sharp decline in the number of Algerian migrants bound for France owing to several untoward factors linked to the rising unemployment and the unabated islamophobia towards Muslims in that country.

In its latest report, INSEE said that the overall number of Algerian migrants who chose France as a destination in the year 2012 reached just 7 per cent of the entire immigration flow to France marking a sharp decline compared to previous years.

 The French statistics institute noted a 2.6 per cent drop in the number of Algerian migrants arriving in France between the years 2009 and 2012

 The main reasons behind this downturn could be construed by the fact that the Algerians are shunning France nowadays because of the lack of job opportunities there owing to the persistent economic recession and the growing Islamophobia nefarious phenomenon mainly targeting Muslims in France.

In 2010, the French national institute of statistics, which has a more restrictive definition of immigration than Eurostat, estimated that 5,3 million foreign-born immigrants and 6.5

Among the 802,000 newborns in metropolitan France in 2010, 27.3% had at least one foreign-born parent and about one quarter (23.9%) had at least one parent born outside of Europe. Including grandparents, about 40% of newborns in France between 2006 and 2008 had at least one foreign-born grandparent (11% born in another European country, 16% born in Maghreb and 12% born in another region of the world).

France’s National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques: INSEE) is a Directorate General of the Ministry of the Economy, Industry and the Digital Sector and of the Ministry of Finance and Public Accounts. It is therefore a government agency whose personnel are government employees, although not all belong to the civil service. INSEE operates under government accounting rules: it receives its funding from the State’s general budget.