Segregation and incorporation of immigrants in France.

Summary By multiplying methodological approaches, this article sketches the segregated landscape of immigrants in France from 1968 to 2007, thanks to the unprecedented use of data from six censuses. From 1968 to 2007, the intensity of segregation in France declined at the level of each national origin of migrants, but increased for immigrants taken together. The decline by national origin is due to the combined effects of the shrinking of highly segregated neighborhoods and native-born neighborhoods. The increase in the segregation of immigrants taken together is due to the recomposition of immigration - from European to non-European - over the last 40 years. The study also shows the absence of neighborhoods populated by a single national origin. Finally, the focus on the "neighborhoods we talk about" masks the residential incorporation of the vast majority of migrants, even non-Europeans, thus contradicting the frequent representations of a ghettoized immigration.