English
The surveys conducted by Alain Girard and Jean Stoetzel in the early 1950s constitute one of the few available sources for the study of immigrant issues at the time. The archives of the National Institute of Demographic Studies allow us to understand the rationale and the principles that guided the implementation of these surveys. But the decisive new element that helped structure the project and give it its final shape was the particular situation of increasing migration of colonial subjects to metropolitan France.
