Congolese people in France

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Congolese people in France
Diagonally split flag of Democratic Republic of Congo and France
Total population
58,351[1]
Regions with significant populations
Paris
Languages
Kongo, Lingala, French
Religion
Roman Catholicism, Protestantism
Related ethnic groups
Black people in France, Afro-French

Congolese people in France consist of migrants from the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo and their descendants living and working in France.

History

The first Congolese people to arrive in France came later than the first African immigrants. While people from the Senegal River Valley (Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea) first arrived in the 1960s, Central Africans (chiefly from Cameroon and Congo), arrived in the 1970s.[2] Most of them come for work or familial reunification, but there is also a large number of Congolese people who come with a statute of political asylum during the 1990s. [clarification needed][3]

Notable people

Maître Gims
(Gandhi Djuna)

References

  1. ^ https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2874048?sommaire=2874056&geo=METRO-1#NAT1_V3_ENS
  2. ^ http://www.politique-africaine.com/numeros/pdf/067041.pdf
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2 July 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)