Portuguese political immigration in Luxembourg
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Between 1969 and 1971, 350,000 Portuguese arrived in France. More than 90% were illegal immigrants. In addition to traditional families, often from rural areas, there were families from urban areas with sons refusing to be incorporated into the army and to participate in the colonial war. In 1970, some 17,234 Portuguese joined France at the age of military service (dodgers, draft resisters and deserters).
Between 1970 and 1972, the percentage of draft resisters was around 20% of all candidates for the army: some 50,000 young people turned their backs on military service. So-called "political" emigration began, and Antonio Paiva, who came from it, arrived in Paris in September 1970 before joining Luxembourg at the end of 1971.
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