suburbs
Six years after riots, French discuss French 'banlieue'
In France you will get a different response to this question about its high-rise estates in the suburbs depending on whether you listen to the 'cliché factory' that is the media or the personal experiences of its inhabitants. Above all, it is the magnifying glass of France’s collective identity problem, and all of Europe is involved
suburbs, racism, integration, ethnic minorities, discrimination, precarity, suburbs
France's 'war on criminality' aside, focus on Parisian Roma in 'social insertion villages'
Four years after their creation in Europe, 'social integration villages' are being presented as a 'Roma paradise'. European associations for minority protection expose some of the difficulties facing the most discriminated community in the EU. Meanwhile, the French government has since planned to dissolve 300 Roma settlements, whilst the UK is seeing its biggest Romany gypsy site, Dale Farm in Essex, bulldozed
suburbs, human rights, roma, integration, association, roma, ethnic minorities
Paris suburbs: cliche piled upon cliche
It's a common European stereotype to define the French suburbs by their one-time violent rioting. But those events took place five years ago. On a visit to the 'banlieue' of Paris today we meet three residents who tell their story - a father-of-three, a social worker and a budding regional election hopeful
suburbs, racism, discrimination, multiculturalism, housing, paris, france
Paris suburbs: 'place of exile'
'Banlieue' is the colloquial reversal of 'lieu du ban', literally, 'place of exile'. In the French suburbs, out of work labourers are holed up in prison-style buildings, along with their children, to whom they pass on their despair
suburbs, housing, violence, paris, france, immigration, poverty
A capital that can’t grow up
Last May, the German daily newspaper Tagesspeigel warned that in Berlin one child in three lives off 'Hartz IV' (government aid). This is a new high for Germany and is more than twice the national average. Is it an avatar of reunification?
suburbs, ursula von der leyen, germany, family, berlin, cities, poverty
Rome: la dolce vita?
Being a geographical centre, Rome traces its own road in balancing the contradictary identities that flow in from the north and the south
suburbs, italy, rome, multiculturalism, southern eu, lega nord, architecture
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