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This paper analyzes the paradoxes of media coverage of the French deportation of Roma, by outlining the structure of the ongoing public debate in France dating back to the early 2000s. In August 2010, the French government’s decision to expel the Roma to Romania caused an international outcry. Even so, rather than being a new policy (France had been deporting the Roma to Bulgaria and Romania for several years without any real discussion), it is above all a new milestone in the French political debate on immigration, integration and national identity.