Guineans in France

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Guineans in France
Total population
100.000
Regions with significant populations
Île-de-France, Marseille, Mulhouse ,Bordeaux ,Lyon
Languages
French, Fula
Religion
Sunni Islam
Related ethnic groups
Black people in France, Afro-French

Guineans in France consist of migrants from Guinea and their descendants living and working in France. They are one of the diasporas from Black Africa in France.

History

In the 60s, the first immigrants from Black Africa arrived in France. This immigrants mostly came from the Senegal Valley (Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, Guinea) and were composed from men workers.[1] After, in the 70s, the population of Guineans in France, had more than doubled, because of family reunifications. In the 90s, the increase of Guineans in France was very slow or even zero. But today, a lot of Guineans comes in France again, mostly in provinces cities like Lyon or Marseille.

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