Sami Nair (born 23 August 1946, in

Tlemcen Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...

) is an

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n-born French

political philosopher Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...

who coined the term "

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". A specialist on

migration Migration, migratory, or migrate may refer to: Human migration * Human migration, physical movement by humans from one region to another ** International migration, when peoples cross state boundaries and stay in the host state for some minimum le ...

movements and their socio-political effects, he advised the government of

Lionel Jospin Lionel Robert Jospin (; born 12 July 1937) is a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was First Secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for President of France in ...

from 1997–1999, and the

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until 2004. Since 2001 he has been vice president of the Citizen and Republican Movement.

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1946 births Living people People from Tlemcen French philosophers Algerian emigrants to France MEPs for France 1999–2004 Citizen and Republican Movement MEPs {{France-MEP-stub