L'insertion dans le milieu rural languedocien des agriculteurs rapatriés d'Afrique du Nord

Abstract

How Farmers Repatriated from North Africa Settled in Languedoc-Roussillon. After a brief history of the arrival of North African repatriots in France and an explanation of the sources and methods used for this study, the conditions are examined, especially the financial ones, that permitted 906 repatriated farmers to settle in Languedoc-Roussillon. Statistics are given on the location and size of the farms abandoned in North Africa and on the origin, age, family and education of the immigrants. Their agricultural activities in France are next treated, considering the location of the farm (coastal plain, inland plain and hills, plateau and mountain, valley) and the techniques used in viticulture, arboriculture, stock-raising, etc. Eager to modernize their farms in hopes of thus reducing their debts, the repatriots prove more receptive to agricultural innovations than do the native farmers.