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Are "Pieds-Noirs" Algerian immigrants in France ?[edit]
I believe "Algerian immigrants" are only the (former) "indigenous Algerians" (Muslim and Jews alike) who migrated from the colony to the métropole during the colonial era and from Algeria to France afterwards. This is the commonsense meaning of "Algerian immigrants" (even if many Frenchman would restrict it only to non-harki Muslim Algerian immigrants). The "Pieds-Noirs" (not including the false ones, the europeanized indigenous Jews who wish to be "whiter than white") were French citizens, only a very few of them ("Pieds-Rouges") took the Algerian citizenship after independence. So they can't be considered as "Algerian immigrants", nor can the "Harkis" either. Maybe another category should be created, something like "French people with Algerian roots", which would be more general. Anyway, as there was nearly no mixed-religious marriages in Algeria itself, the colonial categories, plus the Harkis, should become subcategories of "French people with Algerian roots". --Pylambert (talk) 00:14, 28 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
