A senior civil servant and novelist who served as adviser and deputy chief of staff to former president François Hollande (2012-2017), Constance Rivière leads France’s Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. She believes it is necessary to “positively reframe the narrative surrounding immigration,” and that the left should not remain on the defensive regarding this subject.
You have been reappointed for three years as head of the Musée National de l’Histoire de l’Immigration. How does one tell the story of immigration in 2026?
We are a history museum. Our mission is to tell the story of immigration over the long term, in the most scientific way possible. We must reintroduce knowledge and up-to-date data at a time when fantasy has crushed even the possibility of talking about the subject in a calm manner.
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