The problem is poverty instead of ethnicity

Go for ethnic statistics. For the first time in the whole France history, a report presented today in Paris by the National Observatory gives an extremely detailed picture of the French banlieues. A news available thanks to all data given by an unedited survey on sensible urban areas started in 2010, on the basis of foreigner residents’ origins and ethnicity in the in Hexagon, by National Demographic Institute.

Three are the main aspects that come out of this report. The first and the most important one that this paper highlights is what many have pretended not to see: also in the buttered suburbs, in fact, the social elevator does work. Actually, among second-generation residents, the percentage of working in management position’s access increased, compared to the first generation’s one (from 4,4% to 5,3%). On the other side, the working in hand positions decreased (from 52,2% to 40%). A mobility process that goes together with an higher number of girls that, compared to their mothers, become steady part of the labor market.

Another important high percentage (97%) of immigrants’ children has the French citizenship.
A fundamental indicator to clarify, once and for all, that, unlike what is believed, the promoters of the 2005 violent riots were not foreigners but young French immigrants, exasperated by the lack of right equality with respect to their native cohorts.
Third but not less important “discovery”, is the mixed composition of the banlieues population, that looks like all except many Moroccans’ Harlem in French version.

The 47,4% of the most underprivileged districts’ inhabitants is native and the others come mainly from North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, Turkey, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc.
This phenomenon, however, is double-edged. In theory, the presence of a so heterogeneous community could represent a positive element for the host country, reducing the risk of ethnically homogeneous enclaves, closed to the rest of the society. The one and only counter-indication, as demonstrate the French banlieues’ case, is the annulment of the positive diversity of this variegated universe of newcomers in a sea of unsatisfied need, pushing them, as they say, chacun pour soi Dieu pour tous.