Quartier Asiatique

The Quartier asiatique (German asian District) is located in the 13th arrondissement of Paris, between the Avenue d' Ivry and the Avenue de Choisy, south of the Rue de Tolbiac.

In the " largest Chinatown in Europe " live emigrants from Vietnam, China, Laos and Cambodia, as well as Chinese from French Polynesia and French Guiana and Vietnamese from New Caledonia. Total living in " Chinatown Paris " over 200,000 Asians.

History

In September 1914, it became clear that the First World War, especially in Flanders, would be long and costly. Therefore, the Allied Powers moved to support both workers and soldiers from their colonies approach.

The British Army created a Labour Corps volunteer civilians; it comprised 100,000 Egyptians, 21,000 Indians and 20,000 South Africans ( Western Front and Middle East together). In May 1916 bilateral agreement between France and the United Kingdom on the one hand and China on the other hand concluded that cleared the way for Chinese workers to come and work under the supervision of the Allies to France. The Chinese came mainly from the provinces of Shandong and Jilin. France also brought laborers from Indochina ( French colony since 1885). The work in Europe was exploitation - the British paid them a franc for 10 hours of work - and the communication was difficult. Most of the Chinese who did not return after the First World War to China, worked around in factories around Paris and the founding fathers of what later became Paris ' Chinatown should be.

The majority of the residents came but it was only in the 1970s, into the country, especially as members of the Chinese minority in Southeast Asia fled before the instability (Vietnam War, Sino- Vietnamese War, Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia). This settled, especially in the newly built residential block in the south of the 13th arrondissement, so that the area gradually got an Asian majority population and infrastructure, originated.