Ethno-Racial Segregation In Paris

Paris can be considered a key example in the study of ethnic segregation in France, as 40% of all immigrants living in France are currently in Paris. Immigrant have been the key to Paris’ growth and development: Between 1980 and 1990, the immigrant population as much as doubled. Many moved to the less expensive suburbs, the banlieues, and created enclosed communities, some comparable to the Chicago ghettos south of the Black Belt. Like Chinatown or Little Italy in New York, there is a so-called “Black Paris”.
Social segregation, or the “segregation of social classes, socio-economic, or socio-occupational categories”, has been the main point of view of French research and theory. However, researchers conclude that the problems of ethnic and racial segregation have been steadily rising since the Industrialization, especially in “deprived neighbourhoods” in which a large statistical amount of the people living there were immigrants. These “ethnic ghettos” or “zones urbaines sensibles” in the banlieues, or the urban outskirts of Paris, have been

The second type of segregation has fascinated researchers the most, and they have distinguished, again, several different cultural reasons as to why immigrants chose to do so: religious, linguistic, economic, and family-related reasons. As discussed by Simmel in his article “Segregation”, this type of segregation may have initially positively influenced the newcomers, but has large negative effects on the future of the immigrants in the