Immigration : le renforcement de la polarisation parisienne, 1975-1990

Résumé En Fr

Immigration areas: areas of arrival or areas of settlement? the case of Belleville. Immigrant community structures have been mainly associated with the early phase of immigrant settlement. According to this model, such structures disappear in the course of the «acculturation» process. In this article, we argue that these structures exist during a different phase in immigrant settlement and that they are a response to needs that extend beyond the phase of pure «adaptation» to the host society. We attempt to support this argument through the analysis of residential stability of foreign immigrants, used as an indicator of a settling process.

Malgré une forte réduction des entrées depuis le début de la crise, la population étrangère continue à se transformer. Plus fortement encore que pendant la période de prospérité, les flux qui se maintiennent, se polarisent vers l'Ile-de-France. En 1990, 38% des étrangers de France habitent la région, seule à compter une proportion d'immigrés supérieure à celle de 1975.