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The holidays that the children of migrants spend in Algeria offer an opportunity to assess the social mobility associated with the migration of their parents to France. Vacations in luxurious seaside resorts put them in contact with a well-off stratum of local society that they have few opportunities to encounter through their more modest Algerian family. This spatial proximity between young “immigrants” from the working class and families of upper middle class “blédards” triggers a process of social distanciation that takes the form of ethnic labeling. It outlines a transnational social space where the relative position of each group within its own national space is modified by the power relations between nations and by the French colonial past. In the end, if the private beach allows the “immigrants” to suspend the relationships of domination which they experience in France, it is also an privilege associated with the social status of well-off Algerians.