MIGRATION AND THE LIFE-COURSE - MOBILITY IN HAUT-BUGEY (FRANCE) DURING THE 19TH AND 20TH CENTURIES

In order to study geographical mobility at the end of the nineteenth c entury and the beginning of the twentieth century, we construct the bi ography of two cohorts of individuals born in the villages of Chezery and Forens during the periods 1871-1880 and 1901-1910. We seek to defi ne the boundaries of emigration from that area and look for successive migrations. Movers are identified in the census schedules of a set of 580 communes surrounding the place of birth. Migration is studied acc ording to sex, age, familial history and individual activity; and the features of movers and stayers are compared.