This BA diploma focuses on the impact of immigration upon the
french political system, it’s development and changes within
the system as well as within the international relations. By
looking at the development of domestic and foreign policy
throughout the modern history, this thesis analyses, wether
immigration functions as the primary factor shaping the course
of this progress – to what extent can the development of french
politics be understood as reaction to the evolution of
immigration question from the end of World War 2 until today.
The study reflects primary and secondary resources and by
analysing these texts (by application on the history) tries to
define the most important stages during the migratory
development within 20th century and evaluate the impact of the
most important circumstances (e.g. algerian crisis, oil shocks,
october riots) on the french society.However, the possible
future development of imigration politics is also described.
Analysis comes to the conclusion that during the second half of
20th century, immigration, mainly on the domestic scene, has
gained new level of significance, because of deceleration of
french economic progress, distinctive increase in amount of
immigrants entering the state and usual fails in integration of
these migrants. However, the evaluation of international arena
is much more complicated – the thesis tries to prove, on the
example of french bilateral relations with Marocco and Algeria,
that the impact of immigration can not be separated from all
the aspects of
international relations.