Slums in France: a History of Destruction

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From the 1950s, a new category appeared in the administrative vocabulary, then in the media, to designate the spontaneous and precarious habitats where the populations of migrant workers of fresh date, mainly Algerian and Portuguese, gathered. These areas called slums were therefore doomed to destruction, which researcher Antonin Gay-Dupuy recounts in his thesis entitled La baraque et le bulldozer recently rewarded in the Senate.