Elghorba : the reproductive mechanism of emigration The conversation of a young and recent emigre traces the biographical itinerary that led him to emigrate and to discover a France that could only strip the enchantment from the image that he formerly had of it : an image elaborated and imposed by the entire group that continues to maintain it and which is not independent of the ancient roots and of the intensity of the migratory tradition, It allows us to uncover certain mechanisms that tend to perpetuate emigration and that cannot be reduced to economic necessity, which is an alibi both in the scholarly tradition of research on the causes of emigration as well as in the praxis of the subjects and in the justification that they give to others and to themselves for this praxis.