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British migration to France

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British citizens in France
Citoyens britanniques en France
Grave of Kathleen Johnson of Carshalton, Père-Lachaise Cemetery
Total population
261,000[1][2] - 400,000[3][4][5]
Regions with significant populations
Aquitaine, Languedoc-Roussillon, Midi-Pyrénées, Brittany, Poitou-Charentes, Corsica, Centre-Val de Loire, Limousin, Pays de la Loire, Lower Normandy, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Alsace (particularly Strasbourg)
Languages
French, English
Religion
Anglicanism, Protestantism, Irreligion, Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Britons

British migration to France has resulted in France being home to one of the largest British-born populations outside the United Kingdom. Migration from the UK to France has increased rapidly from the 1990s onwards. Estimates of the number of British citizens living in France vary from 261,000[1][6] to 400,000.[3][7][8][9] Besides Paris, many British expatriates tend to be concentrated in the regions of southern France, Brittany, and recently the island of Corsica. Dordogne has a large British immigrant community. The region has between 5,000 and 10,000 British residents and 800 British entrepreneurs, drawn by the French lifestyle, warm climate in the south.[10][11][failed verification]

Demographics

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Population size

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There are conflicting estimates of the size of the British community in France. Estimates range from 261,000[1] to 400,000.[3][6][12] The main destinations of British migration to France apart from Paris are rural areas of France and the southern areas of the country. The major regions chosen by this community are Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Occitanie, Brittany and Corsica. In Eymet, Dordogne, British immigrants account for a third of the local population, and in Saint-Nom-la-Bretèche and l'Etang-la-Ville in the Yvelines department near Paris, are a large proportion of UK nationals.

Population distribution

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According to the data collected, the distribution of Britons (the numerical figure is probably double that) in France was as follows:

Location Population
Nouvelle-Aquitaine 40,000[13]
Occitania (administrative region) 25,000[13]
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur 25,000[14]
Île-de-France 18,000[15]
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes 15,000[16]
Brittany (administrative region) 12,600[17]
Normandy 7,500[18]
Pays de la Loire 7,004[19]

Today

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In 2021, since the United Kingdom left the European Union, 100,000 residence permits have been granted to Britons in France.[20] By the end of October 2021, more than 165,400 applications for residence permits had been submitted by British citizens in France.[21]

In 2014, the National Statistics Institute (INSEE, for its acronym in French) published a study, reporting that there are double the number of British immigrants, this increase having resulted from the financial crisis that affected several countries in Europe in that period; as a result, this has driven up the number of Europeans living in France.[22] The number of British immigrants in France increased by 50% between 2009 and 2012.[23][22]

Other European immigrants in France: Portuguese 8%, British 5%, Spanish 5%, Italians 4%, Germans 4%, Romanians 3%, Belgians 3%.[22] Displaced workers of Europe in France are: Poles (18% of the total), followed by the Portuguese people (15%) and Romanians (13%).[24][22]

Notable people

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See also: List of British French people

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Brits Abroad: Country-by-country", BBC News, 11 December 2006, archived from the original on 8 April 2013, retrieved 24 May 2009
  2. ^ "Répartition des étrangers par groupe de nationalités | Insee".
  3. ^ a b c Erwin Dopf. "Présentation du Royaume-Uni". diplomatie.gouv.fr. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  4. ^ "Présentation du Royaume-Uni". France Diplomatie : : Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères.
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  6. ^ a b "How many British immigrants are there in other countries". Royal Statistical Society. Archived from the original on 2017-02-01. Retrieved 2017-01-20.
  7. ^ "Présentation du Royaume-Uni". France Diplomatie : : Ministère de l'Europe et des Affaires étrangères (in French). Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  8. ^ Gerard, Maïder (2017-06-19). "Brexit : hausse de 254 % du nombre de Britanniques demandant la nationalité française en 2016". Le Monde.fr (in French). ISSN 1950-6244. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  9. ^ Bennett, Asa (2015-05-21). "Emigration nation: who are the thousands fleeing Britain each year?". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  10. ^ "Brits Abroad". BBC. 6 December 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  11. ^ "Where have the figures come from?". Brits Abroad FAQs: The data. BBC. 11 December 2006. Retrieved 4 July 2013.
  12. ^ "The British in Europe". MigrationWatch.
  13. ^ a b "L'Occitanie, deuxième région d'accueil des Britanniques expatriés". Insee. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  14. ^ ""On ne trouve pas de raisons de repartir", paroles d'un couple de Britanniques expatriés sur la Côte d'Azur". Insee. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  15. ^ "Royaume-Uni est l'un des principaux pays investisseurs de la Région Île-de-France". chooseparisregion. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  16. ^ "Brexit : ce que redoutent ces Anglais installés dans le Puy-de-Dôme". francetvinfo. 11 September 2019. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  17. ^ "REPORTAGE. Sainte-Tréphine, 186 habitants dont 62 Anglais, un village breton qui parle " franglish "". Insee. 28 September 2021. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  18. ^ "7 300 Britanniques résident en Normandie". Insee. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  19. ^ "Après le Brexit, les Britanniques friands de la Mayenne". ouest-france. 5 January 2022. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  20. ^ "Britanniques : ils ont choisi de s'installer en France". francetvinfo. Archived from the original on 15 December 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  21. ^ "News Digest: Almost 165,000 Brits granted Residence Permits and Macron has lost his Majority".
  22. ^ a b c d "Qui sont les nouveaux immigrés qui vivent en France ?". SudOuest.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-12-18.
  23. ^ 20Minutos. "El número de inmigrantes españoles en Francia se ha duplicado con la crisis". 20minutos.es – Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 2017-12-18.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  24. ^ "Travailleurs détachés : que disent (vraiment) les chiffres ?". www.europe1.fr (in French). 27 October 2014. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
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