TY - BOOK AU - Blanc-Chaléard TI - A National Center for Immigration History PY - 2006///. N1 - 71 N2 - Since the 1980s, the question of immigration has been posed concerning the rejection and exclusion of a part of French inhabitants, undermining the future of the society. Reversing the image of immigration by dedicating a space as a national memory place to immigrants in the construction of contemporary France is the project of the national center of immigration history. This ambitious project aims at joining a prestigious museum, a place where history is recounted, with a living place for memory and culture; it is an unloved project: put off for fifteen years, it is now taking shape in a seriously tense context concerned with the past and the present of migrations; the building to house it at the Porte Dorée is also contested, which hurts its symbolic dimension. The stakes are intact; it remains urgent to change the look on tomorrow’s France; the collective will to give it form is still up in the air UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-vingtieme-siecle-revue-d-histoire-2006-4-page-131?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -