14
Jun
2018
French Cross-border commuters in Luxembourg : demographic and socio-spatial evolution.
with Jianyu Chen (LISER and University of Strasbourg)
12:00 pm
01:00 pm
For inquiries:
seminars@liser.lu

Abstract

It is a well-known fact that more than half of the cross-border commuters today working in
Luxembourg comes from France. The census of the population in France from 1968 to 2013 shows that
more than 97% of the total cross-border workers cumulated in this period live in the Department of
Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle and Meuse in the Region of Lorraine. The French contingent in the Greater
Region has therefore become a widely-mentioned academic topic in both Luxembourgish and French
scientific communities as well as the European level.
In fact, cross-border practice is largely based on geographic mobility such as daily commuting
and residential strategies of cross-border workers, and the practice will in return have effect on the
distribution of the residents in the social space in relationship with, more or less, their social trajectory and
social position. Based on a PhD research program, the seminar will mainly concentrate on the
demographic and social evolution of French cross-border workers and their distribution on the study area
in different circumstances and times (1968-2013). Preliminary quantitative analyses are used to describe
the successive socio-residential transformations of French cross-border workers who live in the
metropolitan area in the Region of Lorraine. The results tend to demonstrate that :
1) the proportion of the working classes in the French-Luxembourg cross-border workforce has
decreased since the 1990s due to the metropolisation process. Nevertheless, it still remains today the
majority component comparing to the middle classes or those most capitalised.

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