...in Grigny, 54.4% in La Revnerie and Bellefontaine in Toulouse, 31.7% in L’Ousse de bois in Pau, 37.1% in the Grand ensemble of Clichy-sous-bois/Montfermeil, 42.1% for Bellevue in Nantes/Saint Herblain.9Data...

...in the “idea of a legislation that is so general and so uniformly applied that it is the same for everyone”. This is precisely what no longer works. Assimilation and...

...instance Michèle Tribalat, De l’immigration à l’assimilation: enquête sur les populations d’origine immigrée, Paris: La Découverte/INED, 1996). In this respect, the French model of integration has been highly successful. Its...

...of this crisis”); and last, the never-ending use by politicians of the word “integration” is seldom understood in the Durkheimian vision of it, in which integration is the process by...

...should be underscored: Immigrant youth often mobilize in solidarity with those who have died in police-related incidents, even if the police are not directly involved as in the case of...

...much since then in its main structural features. A 2002 report2“Ségrégation urbaine et intégration sociale”, by Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Eloi Laurent and Joel Maurice. It is available (in French) at http://www.cae.gouv.fr/rapports/45.htm....

...high rate of intermarriages. They don’t identify with the rioters, even if they may resent in their own professional and daily life the growing islamophobia of the media and of...

...reassembled in France. The long-term ethnic grouping of these families in banlieues is no longer an individual choice. It is linked to poverty and reflects the failure of their project...

...Islam”—is an orthodox and proselytising movement whose primary aim is to promote Islamic education. Even if the Tabligh is considered apolitical, its interpretation of Islam is an ahistorical and essentialised...

...do with these riots. There are no religious dimensions in the violence, which is first of all social. But Islam is present in the situation: in many cases, local imams...