InfoMigrants has drawn up a non-exhaustive list of the main structures that can facilitate your integration and provide you with assistance.

To rest and/or understand administrative procedures in Paris

• Austerlitz day center

24 quai d’Austerlitz, 75013 Paris

This day center helps asylum seekers and statutory refugees in the capital. Open Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Come early to be sure to be received.

The center helps migrants with their asylum procedures (registration at the prefecture, procedures with the OFII, etc.). Assistance is provided in French and also in foreign languages

For Dari and Pashto speakers: Monday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

For Arabic speakers: Thursday from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

• Halte humanitaire

2 rue Perrault, 75001 Paris

This day center is open from Monday to Friday (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and Tuesday (9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.) to all homeless people (including asylum seekers and statutory refugees). The shelter offers social, administrative and legal support.

Showers are available: all week from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

• Utopia 56

The Utopia 56 association is very present in Paris. Every evening, they try to find accommodation for families, single women and couples on the street.

They also help with meal and blanket distributions. They provide information for migrants' administrative procedures too.

Utopia 56 is present every evening at 6pm at the Place de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris

• La Cimade

La Cimade sets up legal hotlines so that migrants are aware of their rights. They also provide legal assistance to foreigners in administrative detention centers (CRA).

Their reception hours in Paris:

>> La Cimade Batignolles. By appointment taken by phone:

01 40 08 05 34

Monday from 2:30pm to 5:30pm

Wednesday from 9:30am to 12:30pm

>> La Cimade Luxembourg. By appointment taken by phone:

01 42 22 75 77

Tuesday to Thursday from 10am to 3pm

>> La Cimade Belleville. By appointment taken by phone:

01 42 45 65 07

Monday from 9:30am to 12:30pm

Tuesday from 1pm to 7:30pm

• Bus de la solidarité

The bus brings together lawyers from the Paris Bar Association who can help foreigners understand their asylum case, OFPRA or the appeal to the CNDA (National Court of Asylum Law).

The bus is blue and is parked:

-Avenue de la porte d'Aubervilliers, at the Jardin Anaïs Nin, 75019 Paris

Open on Friday 2pm-5pm

-Place de la Chapelle, 75018 Paris

Open on Tuesday 1pm-4pm

• Le Cèdre (Secours catholique)

The association can help you with your administrative procedures.

Address: 23 boulevard de Commanderie, 75019 Paris

>> Information on your rights: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday from 9am to 11:30am

• Le Gisti (Information and support group for immigrants)

Le Gisti provides legal assistance to migrants on various aspects of foreign law (visas, right to residency, asylum, nationality, deportation, social rights, etc.).

>> Gisti offices are only available by phone from Monday to Friday between 3pm and 6pm and on Wednesdays and Fridays between 10am and 12pm: 01 84 60 90 26

• La Cloche

This new Parisian association helps people on the streets. With its network of merchants "Le Carillon", you can access assistance and services (catering, coffee, showers, phone charging, etc.).

To access the network of merchants ready to help you in Paris (and in other cities in France), click here: https://www.lacloche.org/le-carillon

• Watizat

Watizat is the migrants' guide. It compiles all the useful addresses (legal offices, food distribution, access to care, showers, day centers, French classes, etc.). It lists all the associations mentioned above. It aims to connect migrants with actors present in the territory and capable of helping them.

Their guide is available in Dari, Pashto, Arabic, English and French.

Download it here: https://watizat.org/guide/

For medical care

• Médecins sans frontières (MSF)

In Paris, the MSF mobile clinic is present in the north of the city. Doctors are often accompanied by interpreters who speak Arabic, Pashto and Dari.

Addresses:

-15 avenue de la Porte de la Villette, 75019 Paris (next to the Restaurants du Cœur)

Thursday 10am-3pm (Come early)

-2 rue Perrault, 75001 Paris

Monday, Wednesday, Friday from 9am to 5:30pm

-24 Quai d’Austerlitz, 75013 Paris

Wednesday and Thursday from 9am to 3:30pm

• Médecins du monde (CASO)

8 rue des blés, 93210 La Plaine St Denis

Médecins du monde offers medical consultations for all foreigners, whether they are in a regular or irregular situation.

Medical consultation (without AME): Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 9:15 a.m.-12 p.m.

Social services (information on AME): Tuesday and Thursday 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

HIV and hepatitis prevention and screening: Monday 9:30 a.m.-12 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday 2 p.m.-5 p.m.

• Le Comede

Le Comede treats and supports migrants in need of medical care.

78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin Bicêtre

Access: door 60, brown sector, 2nd floor

Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2 p.m.-5:30 p.m.

Closed on Thursday afternoons.

The association organizes socio-legal phone hotlines from Monday to Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: 01 45 21 63 12

Medical hotlines by telephone also take place from Monday to Friday from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and on Tuesday from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.: 01 45 21 38 93

Comede also sets up telephone hotlines on mental health on Thursdays from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.: 01 45 21 39 31

To eat

• P'tit dèj solidaires

Address: Jardin d’Éole, 75019 Paris

Entrance at the corner of rue d’Aubervilliers and rue du Département Stalingrad

Distribution: Monday to Sunday around 8:30 a.m.

• The collective Solidarité migrants Wilson

The collective is very present in the north of Paris. It distributes meals, blankets and helps with administrative procedures for undocumented people.

Distribution: 29 avenue de la Porte d’Aubervilliers, 75018 Paris

Every Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.

• La Chorba

Address: 15 avenue Porte de la Villette, 75019 Paris Porte de la Villette

Distribution: Monday to Sunday 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Une chorba pour tous

In front of the Jaurès metro station, 187 boulevard de la Villette, 75019 Paris

Distribution: Monday to Saturday at 4 p.m. Come early

For unaccompanied minors in Paris

• Utopia 56

They are present every evening at 6pm, place de l’Hôtel de Ville, 75004 Paris

They can help you with your administrative procedures, find you a roof or provide you with tents and blankets

• Amna

This is where to go start the process of getting proof you are under 18.

Address: 127 rue Tolbiac, 75013 Paris

Open Monday to Saturday: 9am-6pm (come early)

• Pemie

If you are in the Seine Saint-Denis department (93), and you want to start the process to be recognized as an unaccompanied minor, you must go to this address:

1-15 rue Benoît Frachon, 93000 Bobigny

Open Monday to Friday 9am-12:30pm, 1:30pm-4:30pm (come early)

For migrants based in Calais

• L’Auberge des migrants

Based in Calais, the association organizes distribution of meals, clothing and blankets to migrants in the region.

Since the beginning of the year, L’Auberge des migrants has set up an information bus in Calais – the Infobus – for unaccompanied minors. They provide internet access, games, psycho-social activities, and help with access to rights.

• Utopia 56

A branch of the association is in the north of France. In Calais, Utopia 56 goes around to distribute food, clothing and blankets.

• Salam

Active in northern France, in Calais and Dunkirk, Salam organizes distribution of meals, clothing and blankets. The association also supports asylum seekers in their administrative procedures.

• Osmose 62

Active in northern France, the association helps migrants. In particular, it organizes patrols along the beaches to help migrants who fail in their crossing of the Channel. They distribute food and survival blankets.

• Safe passage and Care4Calais

These English collectives are very active in Calais. They participate in the distribution of food and clothing (they also provide sleeping bags, tents and tarpaulins for the people of Puythouck in particular). They also help to provide information on the reality of life across the Channel. For those who do not speak French, they speak English.

For more information: https://www.safepassage.org.uk/safe-passage-france

On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/care4calais/

• Refugee Women's Centre

This is a mobile service for women. It is committed to supporting displaced women and families in Grande-Synthe, Dunkirk, Calais and the surrounding area.

Contact and information: https://www.facebook.com/refugeewomenscentre/?locale=fr_FR

For statutory refugees only

• Singa

Through its J'accueille (welcome) programme, Singa offers accommodation to refugees in private homes.

Its project division also supports refugees in their professional projects.

For more information: jaccueille@singa.fr

• Action emploi réfugiés

This association focuses on the integration of refugees through work. Via its website, the association connects employers and refugees. A workshop for writing your CV online is also available.

In 2018, Action emploi réfugiés released a guide for migrants, their potential employers and the associations that support them The goal: to promote and facilitate access to employment for migrants and refugees in France.

• Afpa

The leading professional training organization trains refugees in professions where there is a shortage of workers in France – and offers them accommodation.

It also provides French courses that are accompanied by modules on republican values ​​on the Internet.

Editor's note: Article updated in September 2024