Banlieue

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A banlieue in France is the name for a suburb of a large city, or all its suburbs together. Most of them are outside the official boundary of the city. They are now mostly full of low-income housing projects with large numbers of immigrants and high levels of crime and unemployment.[1] Not all suburbs are full of poor people, but those are the places people usually mean. There have been several riots in banlieus about police racism. [2]

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  1. Burn-Murdoch, John (2023-07-07). "French riots show how entrenched inequalities have become". Financial Times. Retrieved 2023-07-07.
  2. "Timeline: French riots". 2005-11-14. Retrieved 2023-07-07.