L’inscription des familles étrangères dans le circuit de l’urgence sociale (Paris, fin des années 1990)

"No family should stay on the street": the local administration responsible for the homeless' and asylum seekers' accommodation used this statement in October 1999 in Paris. It imposed this on a set of operators to accommodate, without delay and without exception, any homeless family (family refers to any household with children whose foreign parents are either asylum seekers or in a precarious administrative situation). The article describes the establishment of an accommodation system for these families in Paris at the end of the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s. It is mainly based on the examination of archives of the Samusocial de Paris. This sort of association, funded by federal and local funding, manages the departmental emergency number (115), which is the first step in the relief system. The history of assistance for homeless families leads to an increase in our knowledge about social emergency policies, starting from the viewpoint of single homelessness. It also gives us a picture of contemporary migration policies, drawn mainly at European or national level, and much less at local level, the implementation scale of such policies.