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Once a settlement colony, Algeria had the largest European population of any North African country during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While attention has been paid to the colonial flow of populations, scholars have largely neglected postcolonial dynamics, despite the fact that, since 2000, the end of the civil war and new liberal economic trends have ushered in a new era of mobility between Europe and Algeria. This paper focuses on migration from France, and highlights its social and postcolonial dimensions. Secondly, it explores the narratives and practices of French migration to Algeria while paying attention to the social relationships that are formed in a local context. Thirdly, through a review of the current typology of North-South movements, it presents a new cartography of migration by revealing a spectrum of permeable “social worlds”.