La fécondité des immigrées est devenue dans certains contextes un sujet si sensible qu’il conduit parfois à des réformes constitutionnelles sur le droit de la nationalité, les femmes « sans papiers » étant soupçonnées d’instrumentaliser leur grossesse pour légitimer leur séjour dans leur pays d’accueil. En France, le territoire de Mayotte cristalli...
Le 6 de la rue Lecomte abrite à partir de 1925 le Service des Affaires nord-africaines. Rattaché à la préfecture de police, le SAINA est chargé de surveiller les travailleurs coloniaux qui ne sont ni pleinement français ni étrangers. Le « bureau arabe », accueille plus de 300 personnes par jour, essentiellement des Kabyles venus travailler à Paris....
The conventional approach to gauging mortality convergence in Europe relies on life expectancy estimates (e0{e^0\) at the national level. However, mortality can differ within countries significantly. To better apprehend whether Europe's mortality patterns have been converging or diverging over recent decades, we must shift our focus to regional mor...
Although there is a considerable body of research on immigrant spatial assimilation, there is a lack of comparative studies that evaluate whether differences across contexts and outcomes are genuine, or merely a product of different research designs. In response, we carry out a comprehensive analysis of childhood neighborhood contexts across multip...
Background Bisphenol A (BPA; or 4,4′-isopropylidenediphenol) is an endocrine disrupting chemical. It was widely used in a variety of plastic-based manufactured products for several years. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) recently reduced the Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for BPA by 20,000 times due to concerns about immune-toxicity. Objecti...
Lorsqu’il est question des répressions de la période stalinienne (1924-1953), on pense généralement en priorité aux victimes russes. Si celles-ci furent, bien entendu, extrêmement nombreuses, il convient aussi de se souvenir des millions de personnes habitant les marges de l’empire soviétique qui ont subi les effets de la politique impitoyable mise...
Most studies on the impact of birth intentions on children's well-being do not separate risks of infant mortality associated with pregnancy intention status from the risks that are associated with sociodemographic characteristics. There is a lack of studies taking a multicountry comparative perspective. We analyzed 60 Demographic and Health Surveys...
In 2018, the POP-AWARE survey was administered to members of the ELIPSS panel, a representative sample of the French population. Exploring both their knowledge and opinions of demographic trends in France and worldwide, this survey pursues a two-fold objective: first, it reiterates questions posed decades earlier on the situation in France, providi...
