Segregación urbana y políticas sociales en Francia

Abstract

The territorial competition constitutes a reality, since the place of residence represents a resource and a decisive challenge in every stage of the life. The urban segregation and the deficit of social diversity enclose the persons in a predefined paths. In this aspect, this article wants to analyze the reality of the urban segregation in France that concerns all the society, which most visible symptoms are the rich and poor neighborhoods as well as the immigrant ghettos, and his reasons, with the emburguesamiento of the society, the selectivity of the residential mobility and the strategies of avoidance. In front of this situation, the public administrations have elaborated and implemented a few policies centred on the territory: the social housings, the duty-free zones and the zones of priority education, which have failed. Opposite to the lacks of these policies, it is necessary to reorientate and to concentrate the public action both in the infancy and in the adult young persons.