Comparer l’incomparable ? Haïtiens et Juifs marocains en France (1960-1980)

Abstract

Haitian and Jewish people appear essentially as two totally opposed ethnic groups. However, if it is true that, according certain objective criteria or features, such as culture, language, ethnicity or color, they are clearly different, it is also true that, according other characteristics, both subjective and objective, they have (or some of them) had converging migratory patterns, and experienced similar difficulties, which have put them both at comparable risks and treatments. Actually, this has been particularly true for those Haitian migrants and Moroccan Jewish migrants who have arrived in France during the second half of the 20th century. It is also clear that, in that kind of alignment, France has played a major role as a former colonial empire by having exerted a decisive influence on those populations who have, in return, attached great importance to French language and culture. In examining the migration of these populations into France, this article highlights some of those similarities that have united them, at least in epistemological terms.