Patrons, teachers and associations denounce an resurgence of “ubiquitous” expulsion measures against young people who are trained on trades in tension.
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They are future pastry chef, baker or butcher, carpenter or logistician. They are Malian, Guineans or Ivorians. And are threatened with expulsion. These young adults, students in the professional sector and supported by their teachers, their bosses or associations, however, believe that they are fully engaged in integration approaches. At a time when many economic sectors report recruitment difficulties, such as the hotel and restoration and the building, these situations challenge.
Moussa (he did not wish to give his family name) holds a painter and a CAP of roofer, obtained at the Lycée Jean-Monnet de Montrouge (Hauts-de-Seine). This 21 -year -old Malian, in France for five years and housed by a French aunt, asked for a residence permit, but was issued an obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) in January by the prefecture of the department. “I do not understand, he confides to the world. I provided all my bulletins, with each time encouragement or congratulations. A boss wanted to hire me but [because of the OQTF], he n ‘could not be. “Moussa formed an appeal and, in the meantime, he registered in CAP PLATERIER for the start of the school year in September.
Always in Hauts-de-Seine, another Malian, also named Moussa and holder of a professional baccalaureate in electricity, is also under an obligation to leave the territory since March. Supported by social assistance for childhood between 2017 and 2021, Moussa, now aged 21, is accompanied by a boss in whom he has already carried out several fixed -term contracts. “I do not understand why I have an OQTF, I suffer a lot,” he says.
“Ubuesque situations”
In this Ile -de -France department, these situations multiply, according to Armelle Guardien, of the Education Sans Frontières network (RESF). “This issue absorbs almost all of our efforts, she testifies. Since 2021, we have accompanied eighty young people who have OQTF. But the problem is general.”
Thus, in the Marne, Marie-Pierre Barrière, professor of French and member of RESF, counts nearly thirty young people threatened with expulsion and accompanied by the association. She evokes the case of Maurice Tolno, a 20 -year -old Guinean holding a cook of cook and expelled on July 3 to Conakry. “He worked in a restaurant in Amiens, the boss found him excellent and wanted to hire him on a permanent contract,” said the activist, who specifies that an OQTF had been taken against him by the prefecture of Aisne, “on the pretext inconsistencies in his life story during his minority assessment with social assistance to childhood “.
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