Portuguese in France
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Portuguese in France (Luso-French) refers to people from Portugal who immigrated to or reside in France or French citizens of Portuguese descent.
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Total population | |
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Total population of Portuguese born and ancestry 1,720,000–3,000,000 (2019)[1][2] Residents of France born in Portugal 644,206 Portuguese-born (2013 Census)[3] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Ajaccio,[4] Aquitaine, Brittany, Bordeaux,[4][5] Cebazat (Clermont-Ferrand),[4] Centre-Val de Loire, Corsica,[6] Dax,[4] Île-de-France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Lille,[4] Limousin, Lower Normandy, Lyon,[4][7] Marseille,[4][8] Midi-Pyrénées, Montpellier,[4] Nice,[4] Northeastern France, Orléans,[4] Paris,[4][9][10] Pau,[4] Pays de la Loire, Poitou-Charentes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur,[11] Roubaix, Rouen,[4] Strasbourg,[4][7] Toulouse,[4][7] Tours.[4] | |
Languages | |
French, Portuguese[11] | |
Religion | |
Roman Catholicism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Italian, Spaniards |
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Portuguese immigration in France took place mainly during the 1960s and 1970s, to escape dictatorship and conscription, and to enable immigrants to find better living conditions. Portuguese migrants were sometimes referred as gens des baraques ("people from the barracks"). Most began working in construction.[11][2]