Migration

The theme of my work is the migration (a general term that describes any transfer of populations ) of various ethnic minorities into France the problems they face with integration (the action of incorporating a racial or religious group into a community , and their reception by the local community . To examine this issue , I have taken an interview with my uncle , Brooks Beaulaurier (hereinafter referred to as informer from my patrilineage . Born in 1978 , and a Parisian journalist for some twenty years , he was a firsthand witness to the process of migration that

is spoken about so often now in regard to France and its inner riots . Now , a recent US immigrant of two years , he is able to share his experience . The informer kindly agreed to provide some information about his perceptions of the foreigners in the French community

According to the MPI data hub , almost half of the immigrants was Northern African (MPI Database , 1999 . Thus , I asked the informer about which ethnic minorities were the most noticeable to him His reply follows

It greatly depends on what you mean by noticeable . The people , as back in the nineties , and even more so now , are far more afraid of the tightly-knit Muslim and Arabian communities . But . the Blacks - not derogatory term , just generally - are everywhere . They 're on the streets , in the services sector , and they seem to like it there . It feels like the Blacks are becoming the cockneys of Paris . The Muslims interact some with the outside world . The Blacks don 't seem to : even in public schools , from what I 've heard , they stick to themselves . I think that 's where the danger lies

The reply , somewhat unexpected , raised a whole host of questions Interestingly enough , the prevailing cultural situation is often judged to be the opposite : the African immigrants are not perceived to be of one culture , or even of a similar culture with the Maghreb , and , on the whole , are treated more favorably (Wallace , Fathali , Sorin and Sorin 1990

. 410 . When I asked whether he knew what part of Africa these immigrants (from immigration : coming into a new country as a permanent resident ) hailed from , he replied that they come from Maghreb , like most French-Africans . My next question was whether he knew that the majority of the Arab immigrant population also come from this region and are thus , probably the purporters of the same culture , or , at least , have had much more experience in interaction with Africans than with Frenchmen , was met by disbelief - not towards their origin , but towards possible subsequent behavior the minority groups could display Beaulaurier said

From my experience of these people - Arab or African , it doesn 't matter - they keep to themselves and their local community . I have seen children 's companies of all races playing together , though , and some which excluded other races completely . I have not seen a children 's group unite against another on principle of color - and they would if they were more...