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Recruiting Colonial Settlers
2015
Overview
In the late nineteenth century, pronatalist propagandists frequently presented colonial settlement as a sign of demographic strength and repeated the claim that French settlers were more prolific than their metropolitan compatriots. Still, this support for colonial emigration aside, the reality was that relatively few French people actually migrated to the French empire. According to members of the Union coloniale française (UCF, French Colonial Union), two primary factors accounted for France’s meager supply of colonial settlers. The first, they maintained, was that the French government did not do enough to facilitate or promote migration to the colonies, a problem that could
