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The paper deals with the conditions and the ways in which the Secretary of State for Immigrant Workers and a non-profit-organization at the margin of the state ( Agence de développement des relations interculturelles) mobilized knowledge focused on intercultural relations, from 1975s to 1990. The ADRI was intended to promote a dialogue between “French people” and “immigrants.” This organization contributed to establishing administrative interaction with immigrants as a policy target. The paper shows that training programs focused on intercultural relations for street-level bureaucrats have reframed the political imperative of “dialogue” according to administrative agents’ own understanding. This paper analyzes this knowledge as cognitive resources, able to frame a new arena for political and administrative action, as the issue of immigrants’ insertion is being politicized. These actors use this knowledge to redefine and depoliticize this public problem.