Survey on integration of migrants and their descendants « Life histories and family origins »

Aims  Set up the effect of the origins on the life conditions and social trajectories controlling for other socio-demographic characteristics  Main issues : Integration Discriminations

Definition of an immigrant (used in France)  A person who is born abroad and who was not French at birth. The latest point is important in France referring to the large number of migrants coming from former colonies.  6.6 million born abroad ; among them 5 millions are immigrants using the French definition.

Other surveys  Conditions of retiring for migrants aged between 50 and 70 (National retirement Fund, 2002)  New migrants i.e. having a first permit since 4 months 8Ministry of Social Affairs, 2007 and 2008)

Immigration in France (%) Europe20002 Maghreb Sub-Saharan Africa60045 Asia70022 America, Oceania20033 All500014

Descendants by country of origin

Descendants by age (among the 0-65 years old)  55% whose parents are from Spain or from Italy are between 40 and 65  71% coming from Maghreb are less than 24  90% whose parents were born in sub-Saharan Africa are less than data

Target populations Immigrants Immigrants’ descendants Persons born in French overseas districts Their descendants Others – reference sample

Size Immigrants  Natives of Turkey  Natives of South-East Asia  Natives of sub-Saharan Africa Immigrants’ descendants  Natives of Turkey  Natives of South-East Asia  Natives of sub-Saharan Africa Persons born in French overseas districts 800 Their descendants 800 Others All Age Sample size

Questionnaire Family and social background  Characteristics of the member of ego’ household Including citizenship, place of birth, year of arrival, etc  Parents, children, sibling out of the household  Marital life Detailed characteristics of the actual spouse (and of the spouse’ parents) and of the first one if any  Social relations with family, friends, colleagues,neighbourhood, helps given or received

Questionnaire  Education  Work life Short biography Access to an occupation  Attitudes toward institutions Political opinions ; Citizenship, Voting, associations  Housing  Health

Questionnaire Identity and links to the country of origin  Migration trajectories Countries of previous residence, reasons for coming  Transnational relations  Languages (mother/father languages, used), level in French  Religion  Discriminations (perceived) Theme present elsewhere in context (work, housing, education), completed here in other situations

« Sensitive » questions  Three fields are involved : Religion Years in France before getting a first permit of stay (i.e. illegally) Identity, ethnicity

Schedule  2 tests : January and December 2007  Field : September to December 2008  First results : autumn 2009

Concerning the measure of discrimination, the analysis will follow two approaches; first one is to evaluate discrimination according to the declaration of the respondents; the other one is to estimate the gap between the immigrants’ situation and the rest of the population controlling for other characteristics.

Legal environment  Statistical council: judges the usefulness of the project  Label committee. Judges the statistical quality of the survey (including sampling)  National Commission “Informatique” and Freedom: allows or not the survey or some questions regarding to the rights of the person  And, that was unexpected, the Constitutional Council. They ruled on the fact whether it right or not to ask questions on religion, origin and which ones.