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Originally Posted by roachboy
i dont think this is accurate--the situation from which all the trouble that is now happening flows is the mode of spatial segregation france chose--which was a state decision--it was a state decision to construct banlieux in the outer reaches of the paris region, encourage almost entirely immigrant folk to live there and then to abandon these places once the labor market collapsed--starting in the middle 1970s.
the spatial arrangment functions as a kind of natural horizon for kids born within it.
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And this helps the immigrants assimilate into french society, how? Keeping them spacially segregated from the mainstream french population is part of what is keeping the immigrants from being assimilated. Between the government "policies" and the social attitudes the french are resisting any attempt by the immigrant youth to assimilate. But these youths didn't choose to live in france, their parents did a couple decades ago. So there is some discontent over trying to assimilate into a culture that doesn't want you.
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Originally Posted by aKula
Then again as he said they are not all under the influence of such organizations and that it's not a religious dispute that has lead to the violence rather that these people have not been integrated into french society.
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exactly. but the fear that the extremist religous organizations will take advantage of the situation, europe-wide.