...du ‘problème des quartiers sensibles,’” online at http://www.lmsi.org. of the riots died. In discussions with my students, they said they were frustrated by the so-called “sociological” explanations they heard in...

...time when the unemployment rate of the young had already reached 20%. A spate of empirical studies, including those I have carried out with Guy Laroque26Some of our results are...

...so tense that the government decided, after ten days, to apply a law which had been enacted in 1955, during the Algerian war, in order to implement a curfew, mainly...

...order, the rioters opposed the law and order of force. The two sides fought for the definition of the space where they actually opposed each other: is it part of...

...of immigration, but also in terms of the politics of integration. This constant exclusion results in the fact that the issues of poverty, ethnicity, and Islam tend to be conflated,...

...of the local social order. Sometimes they make looting forays in off-limits commercial malls or even in the centers of big cities (calls for raiding the Champs-Elysées were often to...

...otherness and poverty go together, where unemployment among youth is far above the national average, are presented as conflict zones between civil society and the forces of order (the police),...

...effective action against ethnic discrimination. If there is still a long way to go in finding effective solutions, after years of denial and scapegoating, at least there appears to be...

...want to leave school (has obligatory schooling until age sixteen been abandoned?), and one hundred million euros in order to finance civic associations charged with maintaining social cohesion (associations whose...

...the outbreaks, or even to react to them more effectively, and certainly to have a better idea of what the aftermath should consist of. France has today a problem on...