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The debate in France over the development of statistics relating to the origins of immigrant populations or citizens from immigrant backgrounds, not available in the census, is a long-standing one. But the terms of this debate have changed. About a decade ago, the goal of describing and measuring the integration of populations from immigrant backgrounds required the collection of some specific information about these populations, in addition to the place of birth. This additional information included the place of birth of the parents of the person under consideration, as well as their nationality.

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Translated by Heather Juby. This article is based on the findings from a project supported by the Institut national d'études démographiques and by an INTAS programme entitled Economy and Demography of the Peasant Family in Russia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (project INTAS 2000-00586).