المركز الاستيطاني حمر العين من خلال بعض وثائق الأرشيف السويسري سنة 1851

Abstract EN

The sample of this modest work is closely related to colonial politics during the era of the second French republic (1848-1852), and this is by highlighting the settlement centers and European immigration towards the plain of al-Matija, as we selected one of the settlement centers as a model, which is the village of “Ameur el-Ain” the foundation in the year 1849 after the constituent assembly decree of 1848, to allocate a budget to the French ministry of war for the establishment of settlement villages on the occupied lands of Algeria, as a result of which a group of poor swiss immigrants allowed to settle a part of the western result, these settlers brought different conditions to the island r, and directed them several factors to "red eye" in 1851, they lived for the first half of the year in good conditions, but soon the situation reversed due to the sudden change of climate that they did not familiarize, claimed the lives of some, and most of them left the center, and a few of them remained compatible with the vanguard of the new climate ..

some of the documents related to the recently published Swiss diplomatic archive show us the phenomenon of Swiss immigration towards Algeria in general, and red eye in particular, by reviewing the stages of the establishment of the center, the origins and population of immigrants, and their health, material and moral status.