Faced to a growing population of immigrant workers during the «Trente Glorieuses» period, the doctors in charge of their health in construction industry begin to inquire about their specific risks and medical problems at work from the middle of the Fifties. Theses questions were a part of a wider range of professional reflections oriented toward social analysis characterising the construction industry occupational health in the larger landscape of post-war occupational health in France. Thank to the organisation of important national surveys whose data were electronically exploited since the 1970s, the construction industry doctors could answer without any racial attitude to the questions concerning the particular characters of migrants' health in workplaces. Ways of life, eating, physically constraint jobs, hardness of work tasks took from that moment their entire place in medical analysis concerning accidents, inaptitude or professional diseases of migrant workers.

immigrants Construction industry Statistics occupational health XXth century France

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