...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...

...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...

...along with two discretionary increases in 1995 and 1997, explains why the ratio turned up, and a policy that was demonstrably showing sizable positive effects was jeopardized. Given the striking...

...or student analyses. It seems as though the first difficulty was to decide into which kind of frame those “events” could—or should—find their place: do they belong to the history...

...hard data about why these riots broke out at this moment and in a particular place, whether they were organized or spontaneous, why they took the form they took, what...

...firmly that Islamic organizations played no role in provoking the riots. On the contrary, it has been widely reported that where Muslim organizations have taken a stance, they have done...

...The whole group will join to protect the territory from intruders, whoever they are: a rival gang, police but also journalists. The suburbs have been marred by inter-“cités” feuds during...

...first- and second-generation immigrants from the former colonies of the Maghreb. This population has frequently been treated as a separate case, not only in terms of the history and conditions...

...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...

...93), with a few forays into Paris (especially the third arrondissement), along with Toulouse and the suburbs of Lyon. The damages contributed to some seventy-thousand incidents of urban violence committed...