Migrant workers’ hostels in Paris
Overview for 2010 and inventories of social, health and cultural interventions

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In 2005, an initial study of social, health and cultural interventions amongst migrant workers was undertaken by Apur at the request of the City of Paris. It allowed an inventory to be made of every type of action which took place in the 46 existing hostels of Parisian migrant workers and to bring to light very contrasting situations within the various hostels.

In 2010, Apur was again commissioned by the Urban Policy Delegation and the Accommodation and Housing Department to list the social, health and cultural interventions in the 45 existing migrant workers’ hostels and 4 new  relief hostels in Paris. This work was undertaken in collaboration with Parisian hostel managers, questioned via detailed questionnaires, and with about thirty social workers and activists in associations who had intervened in the Parisian hostels, who were brought together for this study.

This inventory has made it possible to take account of the needs expressed by the residents and to formulate recommendations for public intervention in workers’ hostels or on behalf of their occupants.

It also gives a picture of the general state of the hostels in 2010, in a context marked by an acceleration in procedures in the field,  numerous hostels becoming social housing and the significant restructuring of Parisian organisations running the hostel accommodation park,  which numbered only 4 in 2010. This transformation of the park has been accompanied by changes in the occupancy of the Parisian hostels: a reduction in over-crowding, an increasingly ageing population, a growing number of residents of sub-Saharan and French origin; but also in the expression of the collective life-styles in these establishments.

In general, the number of interventions in Parisian hostels has gone down significantly since the last study, as fewer than 70 interventions of different kinds are listed, as opposed to about a hundred in 2005. Those undertaking the interventions have also changed a lot: 10 associations which were active in the hostels in 2005 were no longer present in 2010 and 12 new associations have appeared.

Volume 1: Report of the study

Volume 2: Descriptive records of each hostel.

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  • Study

    Migrant workers’ hostels in Paris - Overview for 2010 and inventories of social, health and cultural interventions

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    Migrant workers’ hostels in Paris - Descriptive records of each hostel

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    Migrant workers’ hostels in Paris - Overview for 2010 and inventories of social, health and cultural interventions

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