Between 80 and 100 people participated, this Saturday, December 21, in the gathering planned for International Migrants Day by several Nazairian associations or movements (1).
The various speakers called for not becoming “ a racist society”not to give in to “ administrative contempt which mistreats and pushes away foreign workers, exiled people, and students already targeted by migration policies which see foreigners as “undesirable”.
“Migrants have rights”, recalled the spokespersons even though “ the immigration law of January 2024 and the Asylum and Immigration Pact of the European Union have further radicalized repressive and brutal policies.”
“Our file was refused”
Children and adolescents abandoned by institutions, refusal to regularize the situations of people who work, study, or live in France, difficulty for long-term residents to extend their residence permit, losing work, housing, social rights and medical coverage: Rabeb, a Tunisian mother who arrived in Saint-Nazaire, gave her testimony. She works, her three children, aged 6 to 12, go to school. The family is housed in emergency social housing, but despite “ of our presence here, our application was refused. We are threatened with having to leave the territory,” she said to show the precariousness of their situation with regard to their integration.
(1) ATTAC, Artisans du Monde, CCFD, CSPRN, CUS, LDH, La Cause des Femmes, MRAP, NFP, NPA Anticapitaliste, PCF, PCRF, Secours Catholique, UL CGT, UL Solidaires, etc.
