...advance.”1For an unorthodox version of Tocqueville’s analyses, see Aurelian Craiutu and Jeremy Jennings, “The Third Democracy: Tocqueville’s Views of America after 1840,”American Political Science Review, 98 (3), 2004, pp. 391-404....

...mes excuses), which uses OECD standardized data to compare France and the US. In the 25-54 age group, the employment rates of men in both countries have stayed very close;...

...of upward mobility. The term “social void” expresses the hopelessness of people younger than 20, who represent 40% of the population from Val-Fourré to Mantes-la-Jolie. In those “zones”, foreigners or...

...released on the Internet website TouTEsEgaux.net. That appeal calls for “postcolonial anticolonialism” and a protest against the persistence, on French territory, of a colonial logic that pushes “postcolonial immigrants” into...

...United States. New York: Palgrave, 2004. See also Cesari (co-ed.), European Muslims and the Secular State. London: Ashgate, 2005. Even if Salafi doctrine bears no direct relation to terrorist activity,...

...France’s suburbs in November 2005. 1. A ghetto youth revolt These riots came as no surprise, they have been recurrent since the early 1980’s. What is new is the extension...

...Society, vol. 18, no. 3, Fall 2000, pp. 83-101). While some politicians on the right were beginning to openly praise British anti-discrimination policies, neither Aubry nor Chevènement was willing to...

...that France was living on credit. Oddly, the French economy has much going for it. The productivity of its workers is among the highest in the world. But the number...

...directed at minors. In order to analyse this phenomenon, one must distinguish between three levels, in fact, three scales of temporality. 1. The first one is long term. As analyzed...

...the same for all immigrant youth. Not all are idle, tempted by the parallel (illegal – ed.) economy, radical Islam and urban delinquency. Though unknown to most, even as discrimination...