Abstract
Abstract This article explores how the strengthening of migration policies in Europe from the 1970s onwards contributed to a renewal of the issues at stake in postcolonial criticism. It shows the place of the historical figure of the ‘tirailleur’ in negotiations and mobilizations related to migration policies. The sacrifice during the two world wars of colonial subjects integrated into the colonial army at the end of the nineteenth century appears as a central narrative in the development of a critique of the hegemonic and unilateral policies pursued by the former colonial powers towards their former colonies in relation to migration control. The invocation of the ‘tirailleur’ and of the ‘debt of blood’ is the basis of a postcolonial critique, which sees contemporary constraints on migration in the light of the sacrifice of the tirailleurs, and revives the question of colonial responsibility in a postcolonial context.
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