The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants' May 1968”?

Muriel Cohen & translated by Oliver Waine — 2013-12-04T05:45:00Z

Abdellali Hajjat looks back at the event that went down in history as the “Marche des Beurs” (“Arabs' March”), and its beginnings three decades ago in a suburb of Lyon. Through a detailed analysis of the role of local and national contexts that led to the march, he underlines the political misunderstandings it generated and the historic opportunity that was missed for closer links between the Left and working-class neighbourhoods across France.
The title of Abdellali Hajjat's work, La Marche

- Reviews / immigration, racism, working-class neighborhoods, minorities, race

“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation

Muriel Cohen & Cédric David & translated by Oliver Waine — 2012-03-28T04:55:00Z

At a time of profound housing crisis in the 1950s, cités de transit were adopted as a means of rehousing Algerian families from cleared bidonvilles. The background of this measure – at the crossroads between colonial legacy, a long history of education through housing, and the Algerian War – explains the enduring stigma associated with it.
---- Series: How the Algerian War shaped French cities “Social rehabilitation projects”, “short-term housing”, “rehousing estates”, “virtual prisons”,

- Essays / bidonville, housing, cités de transit, Algerian War, shanty town, slum, transition estates

Metropolitics

The March for Equality and Against Racism: the “Migrants' May 1968”?

“Cités de transit”: the urban treatment of poverty during decolonisation