Le quartier Belsunce à Marseille : Les immigrés dans les traces de la ville bourgeoise

Mazzella, Sylvie

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“…It can demonstrate a desire for territorial grouping based on affinities; we can therefore qualify this movement as voluntary aggregation. Territorial grouping of immigrant minorities, for instance, can be a tool for enjoying the benefits of community resources and infrastructure, as is the case with Algerians of the Belzunce neighborhood of Marseille (Mazzella 1996), or the Tunisian Jews in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris (Simon 2000). Or it can demonstrate a choice of community life and a strategy of identity: the town of Sarcelles, for example, offers Jews "possibilities of Jewish life," opportunities which a considerable number of people have seized (Benveniste and Podselver 1996: 19) 1 .…”

Section: Processes Resulting From Individual Decisionsmentioning

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Segregation, Spatial (In)Justice, and the City

Lehman-Frisch¹

2012

Planning Journal

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Segregation has been widely discussed by social scientists and especially by urban geographers and planners over the past decades. However, regardless of their focus, most of these studies view segregation as an obvious case of spatial injustice. I argue that this implicit relationship between segregation, (in)justice, and space needs to be reexamined. This paper approaches this task by reviewing an interdisciplinary body of literature (including geography, sociology, history, political sciences, and philosophy) that deals with segregation without (explicitly) tackling the issue of justice. Focusing on the case of poor, segregated neighborhoods in France, this paper examines the question of whether the segregated city is essentially unjust, analyzes the extent to which segregation is a spatial injustice, and identifies segregation's underlying (spatial) causes. It will then question the dominant contemporary discourse that holds that the Just City should be a diverse city at the neighborhood scale.

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Section: Processes Resulting From Individual Decisionsmentioning

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Segregation, Spatial (In)Justice, and the City

Lehman-Frisch¹

2012

Planning Journal

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“…One of the key nodal points in Marseille's postwar trading network is Belsunce, a neighborhood that occupies the central zone of the old historical area of the city and encompasses parts of the Vieux Port. 20 Belsunce remains at the heart of commercial networks formed primarily by Algerian vendors and Sephardic wholesalers following decolonization and is the most important landing site for contemporary Maghrebi and sub-Saharan immigrants as well (see Tarrius 1987Tarrius , 1995Tarrius , 2002Mazzella 1996;Péraldi 1999Péraldi , 2000Péraldi , 2005.…”

Section: Marseille: Trading Empirementioning

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Marseille's Not for Burning: Comparative Networks of Integration and Exclusion in Two French Cities

Mitchell

2011

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Many scholarly studies focus on the historical processes that lead to rioting and war, but few examine the forces that produce peace. This article is a broad, comparative examination of three variables that were important in the relative lack of ethnic conflict in Marseille, France, during an intense period of national rioting and tension in 2005. The three processes highlighted in the research are (1) Marseille's particular form of transnational, highly networked, ethnicity-based capitalism; (2) the specific geography, public infrastructure, and social organization of the city; and (3) the communitarian (difference-oriented) cultural approach of local officials. The case for Marseille's unique position is made through a comparative investigation of the economic and cultural development of Paris. Although both cities are globally integrated, they have developed in quite different ways in these three areas. I argue that these differences are important in explaining the dissimilar outcomes for the two cities during the October and November riots of 2005. Although the particular constellation of these three historical processes might not continue through time, it is worthwhile to consider why and how certain historical moments and places can become shelters of tolerance in violent times. Key Words: ethnic, Marseille, networks, peace, space.Muchos estudios académicos se enfocan sobre los procesos históricos que desembocan en amotinamientos y guerra, pero muy pocos examinan las fuerzas que generan paz. El presente artículo es un amplio examen comparativo de tres variables que fueron importantes para la relativa falta de conflictoétnico en Marsella, Francia, durante un intenso período de desórdenes y tensión nacional en 2005. Los tres procesos que se destacan en la investigación son (1) la forma particular del capitalismo de Marsella, transnacional, altamente eslabonado y basado en etnicidad;(2) la geografía específica, infraestructura pública y organización social de la ciudad; y (3) el enfoque cultural comunitario (orientado por las diferencias) de los oficiales locales. El caso de la posiciónúnica de Marsella está fundamentado en investigación que la relaciona comparativamente con el desarrollo económico y cultural de París. Aunque ambas ciudades están integradas globalmente, se han desarrollado de maneras muy diferentes en estas tresáreas. Sostengo que estas diferencias son importantes para explicar las maneras disímiles como actuó la gente de las dos ciudades durante los desórdenes de octubre y noviembre de 2005. Si bien la constelación particular de estos tres procesos históricos podría no continuar en el futuro, bien vale la pena considerar por qué y cómo ciertos momentos históricos y lugares pueden convertirse en bastiones de tolerancia en tiempos violentos.

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5. Un bâti bourgeois pour des élites de second ordre

Fournier¹,

Mazzella²

2004

Marseille, Entre Ville Et Ports

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Le quartier Belsunce à Marseille : Les immigrés dans les traces de la ville bourgeoise

Cited by 6 publications

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Segregation, Spatial (In)Justice, and the City

Segregation, Spatial (In)Justice, and the City

Marseille's Not for Burning: Comparative Networks of Integration and Exclusion in Two French Cities

5. Un bâti bourgeois pour des élites de second ordre

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