Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-137) and index.
Introduction: welcome to France -- Fear of the police -- Identity comes and goes -- Disintegration -- I exists -- We are stronger than you -- Equal opportunities -- Counting origins -- Conclusion: get moving!
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In the fall of 2005 the streets of France were rocked by civil disturbances on a scale unseen for decades. Only months earlier Azouz Begag, France's first minister for equal opportunities and first-ever cabinet minister of North African immigrant origin, wrote an essay laying bare the festering social and ethnic injustices that, as can now be seen in hindsight, led to the riots. This essay, published here for the first time, brilliantly documents the socioeconomic inequalities, ethnic discrimination, and political neglect that have bred a volatile generation of minority ethnic youths deeply distrustful of a society they believe has failed them.
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