Identities, Discourses and Experiences : Manchester University Press : 9780719076886 : 0719076889 : 01 Feb 2008 : The 2005 rioting in France's suburbs caught the world's attention and exposed the limits of the Republic's policies on the integration of ?immigrant-origin' populations. This book examines academic and public discourses about young people of North African origin in France. The resurgence of such discussions in France, focusing on sensational questions of urban unrest, Islamic fundamentalism and the challenges of increasingly assertive cultural identities, means that it is all the more necessary not to overlook the ?ordinary' majority of young French-North Africans. Their own preoccupations often go unnoticed in a context where issues such as violence in the banlieues and the threat of terrorism are pushed to the fore, sometimes with devastating consequences in terms of discrimination and exclusion. The book rebalances and nuances the debates about post-migrant North-Afric