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

`...a fascinating and scholarly volume of studies edited by two experienced authors. They are to be congratulated on their choice and arrangement of studies...' - Geography`Collectively, the eight authors...demonstrate, in a clear and lively way, the significant contribution of population migration to the social and economic structure of France: they also unambiguously show the necessity for an historical understanding of the geography of France today.' - The Geographical Journal`...a lively and readable interdisciplinary volume. It has lessons for the whole discipline since it goes beyond the simplistic descriptions of numbers, flows and directions which have so often characterized previous studies of mobility...' - Institute of British Geographers

• 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