Mass immigration to France from Syria

There were a number of demographic groups in the French Mandate of Syria and Lebanon who were very loyal to France. The Alawites and Maronites are the most known of these. Armenians too I suppose.

What if following the independence of Syria and Lebanon, there had been a mass exodus (expulsion?) of these groups and they all went to France?
 
Lebanon is difficult. Weren't Christians a slight majority back then?

Plus, would France allow them in? Syria wasn't a colony IIRC, just a
League of Nations mandate, so they had less obligations.
 
Lebanon is difficult. Weren't Christians a slight majority back then?

Plus, would France allow them in? Syria wasn't a colony IIRC, just a
League of Nations mandate, so they had less obligations.

Considering this is immediately post-WW2, they very well could as "guest workers" similar to how Britain and slightly later West Germany did. De Gaulle might put his stamp on it in the name of French industrial development and a show of her continued cultural political importance
 
Considering this is immediately post-WW2, they very well could as "guest workers" similar to how Britain and slightly later West Germany did. De Gaulle might put his stamp on it in the name of French industrial development and a show of her continued cultural political importance

In 1946 France was still half destroyed: how could they absorb and care for ~1 million extra people?

Plus, De Gaulle left most Algerian Harkis to their destiny in 1958 and France wasn't too keen on taking in Pieds Noirs either; do you see them accepting Levantine Arabs instead?
 
They would first try to get to neighbouring countries, before going that far like all refugees tend to do. Alawites to Turkey, where there is also a considerable Alawite minority. Syrian Christians to Lebanon, where in 1932 (last genuine census) was a smal minority or they would like many lebanese maronites go f.i. to Brazil and other countries on the american continent. Those countries had larger syrian and lebanese minorities than France had Pre-WW II.
 
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