Французский опыт реформирования иммиграционного законодательства (1993 - 1997 гг.)

Abstract

The development of migration processes in modern world creates a number of problems for national states. The most important of t h em are: combatting illegal migration and involving immigrants in new cultural environment. The Republic of Belarus as a country closely integrated into the world migration links is facing the above-mentioned problems. So it is deeply interested in the French experience of immigration legislation reforms, for it came to b e a pattern for other European states. The article analyzes the immigration policies of the governments of the right and centre coalitions (RPR — UDF). The possibilities to use this experience in national practice are considered. The author comes to the conclusion that the 1993—1997 immigration legislation reforms in France were repressive and aimed at direct reduction of immigration flows into the country. They cannot be applied to the Belarusian situation. The steps to assimilate immigrants into the French cultural environment were hardly effective, so they are not applicable here.