Trajectories and Origins: Survey on the Diversity of the French Population

Preface.- 1: Introduction.- 2: Migration Histories and Socioeconomic Profiles: Cris Beauchemin, Bertrand Lhommeau, Patrick Simon .- 3: Educational Trajectories and Transition to Employment of the Second Generation: Jean-Luc Primon, Yael Brinbaum, Laure Moguérou.- 4: Employment and Wages of Immigrants and Descendants of Immigrants: Measures of Inequality and Perceived Discrimination:Dominique Meurs.- 5: Union Formation in a Multicultural Context: C. Hamel, B. Lhommeau, A. Pailhé, E. Santelli.- 6: The Living Environment of Immigrants and Their Descendants: Perceived Discrimination and Segregation: J.-L. Pan Ké Shon, C. Scodellaro.- 7: Migration and Living Conditions: Their Impact on Health: C. Hamel, M. Moisy.- 8: Discrimination in France: Between Perception and Experience: Y. Brinbaum, M. Safi, P. Simon.- 9: The place of Racism in the Study of Discrimination: C. Hamel, J.-L. Primon, M. Lesné.- 10: Language Use and Family Transmission in Migration Context: S. Condon, C. Régnard.-11: Registers of identity. The Relationships of Immigrants and their Descendants to French National Identity: P. Simon, V. Tiberj.- 12: Secularization or a Return to Religion? The Religiosity of Immigrants and their Descendants: P. Simon, V. Tiberj.- 13:Transnational Links and Integration: Between Here and There: C. Beauchemin, H. Lagrange, M. Safi.- Conclusion.- Methodological Appendix.

 

Dr Cris Beauchemin is a tenured research fellow at INED (Institut National d'Études Démographiques / French Institute for Demographic Studies) and associate professor at the department of demography of the University of Montreal. He holds his PhD from the University Paris 8. Prior to joining INED, he spent 3 years at the University of Montreal (Demography Department). Most of his research is about migration and connections between places of origin and destination. Covering both domestic and international migration, especially in the African context, his works relate to trends of migration, migrants' investments, return migration, transnational families, integration and transnationalism... In the last decade, he was responsible of projects involving large scale surveys: the Migration between Africa and Europe project (MAFE) and the Trajectories and origin survey in France (TeO). He is associate editor of the journal International Migration Review.

Christelle Hamel, a sociologist by training, is a researcher at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) where she co-heads the Demography, Gender and Societies research unit. Her earlier work focused on gender relations among the descendants of immigrants from the Maghreb and Turkey, notably their young adult years, on union formation and experience of racism. She has also conducted research on forced marriage. She is head of the VIRAGE survey on violence and gender relations, and the contexts and consequences of interpersonal violence in France.

Patrick Simon is Director of research at INED (Institut National d'Etudes Demographiques -National demographic institute) (F), and is fellow researcher at the Center of European Studies (CEE) at Sciences Po. He is a distinguished visiting professor at CUNY (2015-2016). He is studying antidiscrimination policies, ethnic classification and the integration of ethnic minorities in European countries. He has chaired the scientific panel "Integration of immigrants" at