Recent incidents, such as the French is the only official language of France, and is constitutionally required to be the language of government and administration. However, this quota policy contradicts the French Constitution. La restitution; Les contributions des Rennais; Le projet urbain de Rennes 2030; On concrétise. Again, as in the 1920s and 1930s, France stands in contrast with the rest of Europe. This mass immigration was ended and partially reversed by the economic problems of the 1930s.Local populations often opposed immigrant manpower, leading to occasional outbursts of violence. Most immigrants were French law facilitated the immigration of thousands of French settlers (Between 1956 and 1967, about 235.000 Sephardic North African Jews from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco also immigrated to France because of the decline of the French colonial empire and following the In the late 1970s, the end of high economic growth in France caused immigration policies to be considerably tightened, starting with laws by The Pasqua laws are a significant landmark in the shift in France's immigration policy through the course of the 20th century.

One reason for this could be France's relatively high unemployment, which the country has struggled to reduce for the past two decades.

Today, the Brittany region hosts about 3 million people and had a dynamical demographical growth for the last 10 years. The rise in anti-immigration sentiments was reinforced by a series of terrorist bombs in Paris in 1986, linked to Muslim immigrants in France.Tightening immigration laws, as well as notions of "zero immigration", reflected national views that arose within the discussion around immigrant family reunification and national identity.
Rennes's 2020 population is now estimated at 353,897.In 1950, the population of Rennes was 123,363.Rennes has grown by 20,986 since 2015, which represents a 1.23% annual change. Il n'y en avait guère qui, en remontant un peu, ne rencontrassent dans leur généalogie quelque grand-mère sarrasine ou juive. In the 1970s, a small but well-publicized wave of Chilean and Argentine political refugees from their countries' dictatorships found asylum in France. In 2008, the immigrant unemployment rate in France was a startling 13%, twice as high as for the national population (6%).The latest 2008 demographic statistics have been released, and France's In 2014 The National Institute of Statistics (INSEE, for its acronym in French) published a study, according to which has doubled the number of Spanish immigrants, Portuguese and Italians in France between 2009 and 2012. Figures from eurostat for metropolitan France and the overseas departments: According to the French Institute, the increase resulting from the financial crisis that hit several European countries in that period, has pushed up the number of Europeans installed in France.Of 229,000 foreigners were in France in 2012, nearly 8% were Portuguese, British 5%, Spanish 5%, Italians 4%, Germans 4%, Romanians 3%, Belgians 3% and Dutch 2%.With the increase of Spanish, Portuguese and Italian in France, the weight of European immigrants arrived in 2012 to 46%, while the percentage for African immigrants reached 30%, with a presence in Morocco (7%), Algeria (7%) and Tunisia (3%).

Between the years 2010–17, the population of France grew from 64,613,000 to 66,991,000, making France one of the fastest-growing countries in Europe. They are a sign of the securitization aspect of immigration, giving more power to the police, allowing them to perform random identity checks and deport immigrants without legal papers.

(...) Ces nobles du Midi étaient des gens d'esprit qui savaient bien la plupart que penser de leur noblesse. France has a high fertility rate by European standards; this rate has increased after reaching a historic low in the early 1990s. A commission was formed in February 2008 to study how the Constitution could be changed to allow for a quota system. A trend which will carry on by 2030.