Vingtième Siècle. Revue d'histoire - Année 1985 - Volume 7 - Numéro 1 - Pages 19-36Location and jobs of foreigners in France since 1851, Hervé Le Bras The cartographic projection of the 1851 census clearly shows a distribution of foreigners influenced by a neighborhood effect. During the foliowing decades, the effect took root and opened on to a spatial and also social specialization of foreigners. The study of the 1936 data shows moreover a great consistency in national temperaments, geographically as well as professionally. May the recent drop in industrial employment not upset the economic and social results of a century-old process ? 18 pages Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.