Chinese community in Paris

As of 1990, the majority of Asians living in the Paris area were ethnic Chinese originating from several countries.

When the war ended, several thousand remained, most of whom originated from Qingtian, while most of the imported Chinese workers went back to China.

Guillon wrote that there was a likelihood of "many members of the Chinese minorities (Cantonese and Teochew) among these refugees" and that these refugees had been persecuted in Laos and Vietnam in the 1970s, but "it is impossible to work out any count on the criteria of legal nationality" since they had stayed in Laos and Vietnam and had taken Laotian and Vietnamese nationalities many years prior.

[2] The French dispersed refugees so they would not join communities where foreigners were already settled, and the government set up many shelter and lodging centres in central and western France.

However the ethnic Chinese from Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam banded together after leaving the shelter and lodging centres and settled in Paris.

Later groups of ethnic Chinese Indochinese immediately went to Paris after arriving at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

[2] Ethnic Chinese Indochinese families living in provincial French cities felt isolation.

[7] The Franco-Chinese Friendship Association stated that from November 2015 to August 2016 over 100 ethnic Chinese in Aubervilliers had been robbed.

The Parisian public perceives the Porte de Choisy and Belleville areas as being the major Chinatowns.

[14] Ethnic Chinese from Wenzhou began arriving in Aubervilliers in the 1980s and 1990s to participate in the textile industry.