The body that rules on the constitutionality of French laws threw out an article in the new immigration measure that would have allowed the collection of data on ethnic origin in relation to French diversity. However, the Constitutional Council approved a controversial amendment allowing for DNA testing of immigrants’ offspring. The council ruled that the…
The deaths of two teenage boys after their motorbikes collided with a police car sparked riots in the northern Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel on Sunday night. After the two youths were killed, angry young people set fire to cars, shops, and a police station; a total of 25 police and one firefighter were injured in…
While adolescents in Catalonia are raising questions about their identity, and children of immigrants are wondering about what it means to belong to two or more cultures, the proposition of integrative schools is making its way into community discourse. Psychologist Said El Kadaoui Mossaoui is asking for structural changes, especially in schools, to become a…
