A discussion of the structure and role of migration flows affecting France from 1850 to the present day. It covers both internal and international movements and consideration is given both to broad macro-scale analysis and more detailed micro-scale investigations.

Philip E. Ogden Queen Mary College, University of London Paul E. White University of Sheffield.

Preface 1 Migration in later nineteenth- and twentieth-century France: the social and economic context 2 Internal migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 3 International migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries 4 Recent conceptual advances in the study of migration in France 5 Nascent proletarians: migration patterns and class formation nearby places and individual itineraries in the history of migration 7 Industry, mobility and the evolution of rural society in the Ardèche in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries 8 The structure and impact of the postwar rural revival: Isère 9 Immigrant labour and racial conflict: the rôle of the state 10 Aspects of the migrant housing experience: a study of workers' hostels in Lyon 11 Immigrants, immigrant areas and immigrant communities in postwar Paris