“…It stands in a tradition of treating migrants from the colonies as political risks. Indeed, in the 1950s, strategies to manage or dissolve migrant concentrations (in shantytowns, hostels, transitional housing, and occasionally, regular social housing) were informed by colonial personnel, tactics, and population classifications, notably from Algeria (Blanc ; Cohen and David ; De Barros , ; Hmed ; Viet ). After 1962, these colonial practices were adapted to control and “civilize” migrants with state branches sometimes linked to housing officials: social security, immigration, citizenship, regional planning, civil engineering, local policing, internal security and the military (Belmessous ; Blanchard ; David ; De Barros ; Fredenucci , ; Hajjat ; Laurens ; Math ; Rigouste :21–49; Sacriste ; Spire ).…”