French Ghetto article

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/17/france-diversity-issues_n_2896000.html

MONTFERMEIL, France -- The streets in one of the Paris region's toughest housing projects, burgeoning with immigrants, bear names like Cezanne, Picasso and Utrillo, as if to stamp the French heritage onto the psyches of its residents.

an enclosed world where many residents don't speak French.

Delinquency soars and the unemployment rate is estimated at some 40 percent, nearly four times the national rate. Montfermeil's town hall could not provide an official figure.

Even second- and third-generation citizens of foreign origin are perceived as different and treated thus.

Discrimination is a fact of life in France for minorities, and a poll by the Ipsos firm published this year in the daily Le Monde showed no sign that that might lessen. A full 70 percent of those questioned felt there were "too many foreigners in France." The finger was pointed, above all, at those of the Muslim faith.