...at http://www.cae.gouv.fr/rapports/45.htm. to the Conseil d’Analyse Economique, a sort of “wise men” advisory body set up in 1997 to inject economic expertise into the government decision-making process, used the census...

...of Clichy-sous-bois/Montfermeil, 42.1% for Bellevue in Nantes/Saint Herblain.9 Data provided by Laurent Bonelli, “Les Raisons d’une colère,” Le Monde diplomatique, December 2005, pp. 1 & 22-23. But other areas have...

...the West. They listen to hip-hop and rap, eat fast-food, hallal or not. They want to be part of the consumer society, even as predators. All that might sound familiar...

...in the way they administer social provisions without becoming “ultraliberal”, that is, “Anglo-Saxon” type capitalist economies. Yet, France remains impervious to some urgently-needed structural reforms. In what other industrial society...

...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...

...des cites-ghettos” (Breaking With the Myth of Cités-Ghettos), Annales de la recherché urbaine, (54), 1992, p. 20-30. See also Hervé Vieillard-Baron, Les banlieues françaises ou le ghetto impossible (French Suburbs:...