 The troops, along with their families, were housed at camps designated as "Centre d'accueil des Français d'Indochine", of which Sainte-Livrade-sur-Lot hosted the largest of three.Later immigrant communities to the town included Pied-Noirs from the newly independent former French colony of Algeria following the Algerian War in 1962.Immigrants from the Maghreb, especially Algeria, also began arriving in the 1970s and 1980s.