French 101
Madame Drabo
Culture Paper
French Guiana
The French Guiana is a French region and department located in South America. It borders Suriname to the West, Brazil to the Southeast, and the Atlantic Ocean to the North. The French Guiana offers a lot to people and is an attractive place for diversity, immigration, and tourism
The capital is Cayenne, it is also an Atlantic Ocean port and it is the largest city in the department. . Although some people may think the French Guiana is a country because it has its own flag, shield, capital, and it is in South America, the French Guiana is an overseas deparment of France and it has been part of France since almost four hundred years, but it did not become a French department, oficially, until 1946. There is a diversity of habitants in the French Guiana, the majority of its people are of mixed …show more content…
Many people decide to move to the French Guiana because of the benefits that it offers, for example “payments for work injury, unemployment, and maternity as well as family allowances and also old-age, disability, and survivor pensions” (“French Guiana.”) Education is free from six to sixteen years old to every kid that is elegible, the majority are. Immigrants have benefits because whether they are legal or illegal “they can send their children to French schools, get treatments at French hospitals, and accomodation in public housing provided by the French state” (Naidoo, “French Guiana- Magnet for immigrants.”) The region is friendly with immigrants and some of these immigrants actually find a better life there, but the ones that enter illegally and get caught, have to wait for deportation, and even though everyone is aware of it, illegal immigration does not stop “it seems people will continue to sail into French Guiana” (Naidoo, “French Guiana- Magnet for immigrants”) it has so much to