More than 20% of workers in Ile-de-France are migrant workers, who massively occupy “difficult” but “essential” jobs in the construction industry or personal services, according to a statistical study by Insee that offers an X-ray of this workforce of foreign origin.
In total, 1.25 million immigrants worked in the region in 2018, or more than one in five workers (22.1%), according to the study published this Thursday. A stable rate for a decade: migrant workers represented 21.4% of the active population in Ile-de-France in 2008, 23% in 2013.
In proportion, it is much higher than the employment rate of this population in other regions, which ranges from 4% in Brittany or Normandy to 12% in Corsica.
These workers, who are mainly concentrated in Seine-Saint-Denis, the poorest department of metropolitan France, are half of Africa, mainly from Algeria, Morocco, Central and sub-Saharan Africa, details the INSEE.
They are “overrepresented in low-skilled jobs, very difficult, but essential for the proper functioning of a territory,” notes Mustapha Touahir.
Six out of 10 domestic helpers
According to the study, more than six out of ten domestic helpers, housewives or domestic workers (61.4%) were immigrants in 2018. They also represented almost two thirds of the total workforce (60.8%) workers of the structural work of the building. and public works.
One in two Ile-de-France cooks was an immigrant and more than four in ten worked as security guards and guards (47%), cleaners (45%) or childminders (43%).
Professions that are characterized “by more restrictive than average working conditions”, in terms of physical effort, repetitive tasks or schedules and for which “employers face hiring difficulties”, says the statistics institute.
In contrast, this workforce is largely underrepresented among executives or middle management professions (9%).
And it is not necessarily a matter of skills, according to INSEE.
In Ile-de-France, about 40,000 migrant workers with a diploma attesting to at least five years of higher education are employed as workers or employees, notes INSEE. And only 56% of immigrants with a bachelor’s degree enter intermediate or higher professions. For nonimmigrants, this rate is 80%.
Source: BFM TV
