Sources: 1960–1994: Spire and Thave (1999); 1995–2006: statistics of the Ministry of the Interior and the annual statistical reports of the sub-department for naturalization; 2007–2021: reports to Parliament of the general secretariat of the inter-ministerial committee on the control of immigration, and statistics of the Ministry of the Interior. [...] These the sources of a little-known procedure variations are due to changes both in policies and in the The modern legal framework of reintegration began with the number of applicants [2]. [...] The term stability in the 1970s, naturalizations increased considerably ‘reintegration’ itself appeared for the first time in the law of from the late 1980s to the early 2000s, due mainly to a rise in 26 June 1889 on French nationality. [...] The automatic loss of The data also highlight the increasing scale of reintegra- nationality upon marriage with a foreigner was abrogated in tion from the 1970s (4–7% of all acquisitions of nationality 1927 (with certain exceptions) and the number of women who from 1980 to 2010). [...] This explains the increase (6) In the French colonial empire, the term ‘indigène’ referred to a in the proportion of ‘other nationalities’ following the legisla- subordinate legal status along with a specific system of administrative and penal control that applied to most of the populations of the tive reform of 1993, although they remained a small minority colonized territories.
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