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Beurs In The Hood: Coming Of Age In The Banlieue, Lauran Elam
Beurs In The Hood: Coming Of Age In The Banlieue, Lauran Elam
Inquiry: The University of Arkansas Undergraduate Research Journal
In November of 2005, riots broke out throughout the housing projects located in the suburbs of the major cities of France. This focused worldwide attention on the largely Muslim immigrant communities in France, and on the failure of the French government to fully integrate individuals of foreign extraction, namely Beurs. The term "Beur" is the French word "Arabe" reversed by language called Verlan that plays on French in much the same way that Pig Latin plays on English. Today "Beur" refers to the children of North African immigrants living in France who are, for the most pan, isolated to the …