From 1914 to 1916, Algerian workers formed community spaces in the Guillotière quarter. The first business there run by a person from the Maghreb was a restaurant, opened in 1916 by a Kabyle man on the rue de la Victoire, in the 3rd arrondissement. After 1945, immigration to the Guillotière, in the 7th arrondissement, and to Lyon came mostly from the Maghreb, in particular from Algeria, because workers were needed.
The Guillotière
From 1914 to 1916, Algerian workers formed community spaces in the Guillotière quarter. The first business there run by a person from the Maghreb was a restaurant, opened in 1916 by a Kabyle man on the rue de la Victoire, in the 3rd arrondissement. After 1945, immigration to the Guillotière, in the 7th arrondissement, and to Lyon came mostly from the Maghreb, in particular from Algeria, because workers were needed.
From the 1950s to the 1970s, Algerians ran most of the bars, restaurants, grocery shops and hairdressers in the block of the rue de Turenne, the rue Marignan and the rue de l'Épée, in the 3rd arrondissement. The block is near the place Gabriel-Péri, known before 1944 as the place du Pont, which was a main meeting point for immigrants from the Maghreb.
Rising rents in the Guillotière later moved many immigrant families to the outer communes. Half of the immigrants of the Métropole de Lyon live in 10 communes to the south and east of the city, among them Vaulx-en-Velin, Saint-Fons and Vénissieux.
Links with Sétif
A delegation from Lyon visited the Université Ferhat Abbas in Sétif on 25 October 2015, to extend the partnership to higher education and research. At the 2012 census, more than half of the immigrants born in Algeria who lived in France lived in the urban areas of Paris, Lyon or Marseille (INSEE, 2016).
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