Data on the homeless in France were obtained from two surveys conducted in Paris and a recent national survey. What emerges from these surveys of homeless people is their social proximity to other people who are living in conditions of poverty. The findings draw attention to the diversity of the individuals involved. Both contextual factors (e.g., industrial restructuring) and individual handicaps (e.g., poor education and living conditions during childhood) must be taken into account in order to explain why some people are at greater risk than others of losing their home. The findings suggest that preventive policy must not just focus on keeping people in their homes, but also contribute to the more general struggle against all aspects of poverty.The increase in the visibility of homeless people in France occurred during the 1980s in a context of economic crisis and growing insecurity due to unemployment, at a time when family bonds were seen as weakening. These conditions coincided with a decrease in the stock of privately owned low quality but inexpensive housing, much of which was demolished or renovated while original inhabitants were later replaced by better-off residents. Despite the increased concern with housing and homelessness, when the research program on homelessness started at the beginning of the 1990s in our research institute, French National Institute for Demographic Studies (INED), there had been no genuinely representative survey of the homeless population in France, either at a national or local level.INED's research on the homeless addresses methodological issues and provides insights into the living conditions and trajectories of the homeless. It is based on two quantitative surveys, as well as a number of qualitative studies. It comprises in-depth interviews of homeless people and service providers: our first survey conducted in Paris in 1995 with a sample of 591 persons aged 18 and over (Marpsat & Firdion, 1996), a second survey, conducted in Paris and the nearest suburbs

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L’équipe Enveff (Enquête nationale sur les violences envers les femmes en France) a répondu aux attaques perpétrées par Marcela Iacub et Hervé Le Bras contre sa recherche dans le N° 632 des Temps Modernes (2003). Une introduction montrant la portée politique de cette attaque du féminisme précède le texte publié dans le N° 633 de la même revue. Le mode le plus courant de ces attaques est la réduction et l’amalgame, le refus de prendre en compte la diversité des positions et les multiples débats à l’intérieur du mouvement et des recherches féministes. L’autre mode, plus fondamental mais tout aussi commun, est la négation du fait que les relations entre les hommes et les femmes sont bien plus que des « interactions individuelles réversibles », qu’elles constituent des rapports sociaux et que ces rapports sont inégalitaires. Plus de trente ans de travaux sur ces questions, pour ne considérer que la période récente, sont en quelque sorte renvoyés au néant.