ABSTRACT
The study of the Centre Bossuet in the 10th arrondissement (neighborhood) of Paris reveals how medical crises among the African immigrant community raised this group’s profile and provided visibility to various constituencies throughout the 1960s and into the 1970s. African immigrants attracted considerable attention from medical professionals treating African patients and from policy makers trying to protect French public health from the scourges of tuberculosis. An analysis of the Centre Bossuet and the fight against tuberculosis within the African immigrant community demonstrates how colonial policies shaped discourse and approaches to health care among the African immigrant population in France after decolonization.
