Housing trajectories of immigrants and their children in France: Between integration and stratification

Arthur Acolin

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 10, 2021-2039

Abstract: Immigrants have been found to exhibit different housing tenure patterns from the rest of the population in a number of contexts. This article tests whether observed differences in tenure in France can be explained by differences in socio-demographic characteristics or whether unexplained differences might result from housing market mechanisms that affect immigrants differentially from the rest of the population, and extends this to the second generation. The article relies on data from TeO, a survey of 21,761 persons designed to oversample and identify immigrants and their children, providing information about the outcomes of children of immigrants that is otherwise lacking in French statistics. The results indicate that while immigrants are significantly less likely to be homeowners, even after controlling for compositional difference, the gap in homeownership between the second generation and the rest of the population is smaller and not statistically significant. This suggests a progressive integration in the housing market over time and over generations rather than overall stratified housing trajectories. Differences in terms of the share of social housing residents, the level of residential crowding, and housing and neighbourhood characteristics also decline across generations. However, children of immigrants from some non-European origins are experiencing higher levels of stratification than other groups, with continued significant differences in tenure.

Keywords: France; homeownership; housing trajectories; immigrants; tenure; 法国; æˆ¿å±‹æ‰€æœ‰æ ƒ; ä½ æˆ¿è½¨è¿¹; 移民; ä¿ æœ‰æ ƒ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018782656

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