Residential mobility of immigrants and their descendants in France: an approach based on individual data.

Summary This article aims to study the determinants of the residential mobility of immigrants and descendants of immigrants in France. We mobilize individual data from the TeO (Trajectories and Origins) survey conducted in 2008 by INED and INSEE. This survey provides information on first and second generation immigrants as well as on the so-called majority population, which has no immigrant ancestry. In a sequential manner, we estimate the impact of individual and territorial characteristics on the residential mobility and access to property of these populations. We show that immigrants, and more precisely those from sub-Saharan Africa or North Africa, are more mobile than the majority population and that their probability of becoming homeowners is lower. We also show a very similar behavior between descendants of mixed couples and the majority population.