Research project ±Ê(¸é)°¿±Ê²

Property Data Meets Population Data in Past and Present: Migration and Property Relations in the Long Run (1910–2024) (±Ê(¸é)°¿±Ê²)

The project at a glance

  • Start date:
    01 Mar 2026
  • Duration in months:
    36
  • Funding:
    Fonds National de la Recherche (FNR)
  • Principal Investigator(s):
    Machteld VENKEN
    Antoine Paccoud (external)

ÌÇÐÄVlog

±Ê(¸é)°¿±Ê² brings together migration historians and social geographers to study how housing has shaped the integration and segregation of migrants in Dudelange, Luxembourg’s fourth biggest city, from 1910 to 2024. The project offers the first long-term investigation of how property ownership has conditioned migrant access to housing across generations. Drawing on exceptionally rich datasets – land registry records, census tables and migrant arrival forms – and complemented by intergenerational interviews, ±Ê(¸é)°¿±Ê² combines quantitative and qualitative methods. This research project has received funding from the FNR (Grant Agreement No. CORE 2025 /ID/19507949).

Organisation and Partners

  • Contemporary History of Luxembourg
  • Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
  • Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)
  • City of Dudelange

Project team

  • Machteld VENKEN, PI
  • Antoine Paccoud, PI, LISER (external)
  • Claudia DE MARTINO, Project member
  • Alex RELICOVSCHI, Project member

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