Descendantes d'immigrés en france : une double vulné rabilité sur le marché du travail ?

Abstract

Immigrants' daughters study further than their brothers and benefit from a better image in the media. Is it enough to put them in a more favourable position on the workplace than men from the second generation? How do they position themselves in relation to women of French ascent? This article examines the differences in access to employment according to gender and origin (Southern Europe or North Africa), using the data from the survey Study of Family History (EHF, 1999). It appears that as concerns women, stemming from Maghreb increases the risk of unemployment in comparison to native French and to second generations from Southern Europe. Whatever the origin, women are more at risk to be unemployed than their male counterparts. Women from Maghreb thus appear to be doubly discriminated on the workplace: because of their origins and because of their gender.