Banlieue

A banlieue in France is the name for a suburb of a large city or all its suburbs together. Most of them are outside the cities' official boundaries. The suburbs are now mostly full of low-income housing projects with large numbers of immigrants and have high levels of crime and unemployment.[1] Not all suburbs are full of poor people, but the term usually refers to those ones.

There have been several riots in banlieus about police racism. [2] In recent years, communitarianism has become more prevalent in France. Some suburbs, such as La Courneuve, Sarcelles, and Toulouse-Le Mirail, are almost exclusively populated by people from Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. Those housing projects, built by architects such as Le Corbusier, Émile Aillaud, and Georges Candilis, have become communal ghettos.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Burn-Murdoch, John (2023-07-07). "French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  2. ↑ "Timeline: French riots". 2005-11-14. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  3. ↑ "Immigration: what future for France?" (in French). 2025-08-01. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |accessed= ignored (help); Unknown parameter |site= ignored (help)
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