Trajectories and Origins: Survey on the Diversity of the French Population (INED Population Studies Book 8)

This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France. The data, collected from more than 20, 000 persons representative of the population living in France, offer invaluable insights into the trajectories and experience of ethnic minorities. The book explains how France has been an immigrant-receiving country for over a century and how it is now a multicultural society with an unprecedented level of origin diversity. While immigrants and their descendants are targets of clichés and stereotyping, this book provides unique quantitative findings on their situation in all areas of personal and working life. Is origin in itself a factor of inequality? With its detailed reconstitutions of educational, occupational and conjugal trajectories and its exploration of access to housing and health, this book provides multiple approaches to answering this question. One of the work’s major contributions is to combine objective and subjective measures of discrimination: this is the first study in France to focus on racism as experienced by those subjected to it, while opening up new methodological perspectives on the experience of prejudice by origin, religion, and skin colour. Front Matter ....Pages i-xx Introduction (Patrick Simon, Cris Beauchemin, Christelle Hamel)....Pages 1-10 Migration Histories and Socioeconomic Profiles (Cris Beauchemin, Bertrand Lhommeau, Patrick Simon)....Pages 11-38 Educational Trajectories and Transition to Employment of the Second Generation (Jean-Luc Primon, Yaël Brinbaum, Laure Moguérou)....Pages 39-77 Employment and Wages of Immigrants and Descendants of Immigrants: Measures of Inequality and Perceived Discrimination (Dominique Meurs)....Pages 79-106 Union Formation in a Multicultural Context (Christelle Hamel, Bertrand Lhommeau, Ariane Pailhé, Emmanuelle Santelli)....Pages 107-142 The Living Environment of Immigrants and Their Descendants: Perceived Discrimination and Segregation (Jean-Louis Pan Ké Shon, Claire Scodellaro)....Pages 143-170 Migration and Living Conditions: Their Impact on Health (Christelle Hamel, Muriel Moisy)....Pages 171-193 Discrimination in France: Between Perception and Experience (Yaël Brinbaum, Mirna Safi, Patrick Simon)....Pages 195-222 The Place of Racism in the Study of Discrimination (Christelle Hamel, Maud Lesné, Jean-Luc Primon)....Pages 223-248 Language Use and Family Transmission in Migration Context (Stephanie Condon, Corinne Régnard)....Pages 249-275 Registers of Identity. The Relationships of Immigrants and their Descendants to French National Identity (Patrick Simon, Vincent Tiberj)....Pages 277-305 Secularization or a Return to Religion? The Religiosity of Immigrants and Their Descendants (Patrick Simon, Vincent Tiberj)....Pages 307-330 Transnational Links and Integration: Between Here and There (Cris Beauchemin, Hugues Lagrange, Mirna Safi)....Pages 331-357 Conclusion: Diversity of Origins and the Emergence of Minorities (Cris Beauchemin, Christelle Hamel, Patrick Simon)....Pages 359-367 Back Matter ....Pages 369-376 This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France. The data, collected from more than 20, 000 persons representative of the population living in France, offer invaluable insights into the trajectories and experience of ethnic minorities. The book explains how France has been an immigrant-receiving country for over a century and how it is now a multicultural society with an unprecedented level of origin diversity. While immigrants and their descendants are targets of clichés and stereotyping, this book provides unique quantitative findings on their situation in all areas of personal and working life. Is origin in itself a factor of inequality? With its detailed reconstitutions of educational, occupational and conjugal trajectories and its exploration of access to housing and health, this book provides multiple approaches to answering this question. One of the work's major contributions is to combine objective and subjective measures of discrimination: this is the first study in France to focus on racism as experienced by those subjected to it, while opening up new methodological perspectives on the experience of prejudice by origin, religion, and skin colour.-- Provided by publisher "This book provides the main findings of a ground-breaking survey on immigrants and the second generation in France. The data, collected from more than 20, 000 persons representative of the population living in France, offer invaluable insights into the trajectories and experience of ethnic minorities. The book explains how France has been an immigrant-receiving country for over a century and how it is now a multicultural society with an unprecedented level of origin diversity. While immigrants and their descendants are targets of clichés and stereotyping, this book provides unique quantitative findings on their situation in all areas of personal and working life. Is origin in itself a factor of inequality? With its detailed reconstitutions of educational, occupational and conjugal trajectories and its exploration of access to housing and health, this book provides multiple approaches to answering this question. One of the work's major contributions is to combine objective and subjective measures of discrimination: this is the first study in France to focus on racism as experienced by those subjected to it, while opening up new methodological perspectives on the experience of prejudice by origin, religion, and skin colour"--Publisher's website