The Camp of the Saints

Jean Raspail

By the year 2000 there will on present projections be seven billion people swarming on the surface of the Earth. And only nine hundred million of them will be white. What will happen when the teeming billions of the so-called Third World—driven by unbearable hunger and despair, the inevitable consequences of insensate over-population—descend locust-like on the lush lands of the complacent white nations?

Jean Raspail has the rare imagination and courage necessary to face this terrifying question head-on. Readers of whatever color and political persuasion will find in The Camp of the Saints (already a bestseller in France and America) a hypnotically readable novel of compelling power that will disturb, provoke and horrify them by turns. And so powerful is its impact that once you have read it you will need brain surgery to forget it.

About the author

Jean Raspail

Jean Raspail was a French author, traveler and explorer. He was best known for his controversial 1973 novel, The Camp of the Saints, which is about mass third world immigration to Europe.

ChatGPT on “The Camp of the Saints” and Stephen Miller

You’re almost certainly thinking of The Camp of the Saints (1973) by Jean Raspail.

It’s a French novel that imagines a dystopian future in which a massive wave of impoverished migrants from the Global South (“nonwhite hordes,” in the book’s framing) arrives in Europe and causes the collapse of Western civilization. The book is explicitly racist, filled with dehumanizing language, and is widely described by scholars as a foundational text of modern white-nationalist ideology.

Why it’s linked to Stephen Miller

• The book has been repeatedly reported as a favorite or formative influence of Stephen Miller.
• Former colleagues and journalists have said Miller praised it and recommended it.
• Its themes line up closely with rhetoric he later used: invasion, demographic replacement, and civilizational collapse.

How it’s generally viewed

• Mainstream critics: see it as propaganda masquerading as literature.
• Far-right movements: treat it as almost prophetic.
• Literary reputation: minimal outside extremist circles; it’s remembered mainly for its ideology, not its craft.