Abstract
Centering on three bandes dessinées on immigration from mainstream French publishers, this chapter examines how paratextual, textual, narrative, and aesthetic strategies are mobilized to combat the silencing effects of existing French stereotypes about immigrants and the mischaracterization of the history of immigration in France. The first section compares the collaborative efforts in Immigrants (13 témoignages, 12 auteurs de bande dessinée et 6 historiens) (2010) and Paroles sans papiers (2007) and focuses on the contributions of French historians, popular culture references, data, and facts to frame a range of rendered testimonies of lived experiences. The second section demonstrates how Bessora and Barroux’s Alpha: Abidjan-Gare du Nord (2014), in contrast, is purposefully limited to the long journey of a single immigrant. Ultimately, all three bandes dessinées, in giving many faces to immigration, insist on its human dimension while exposing the exorbitant cost and unavoidable complexity of immigration.
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