Abstract

This chapter shows how members of the second generation may suffer discrimination. It examines the ethnic penalties and difficulties encountered by the second generation in the French labor market. For this study, the chapter uses an alternative mode of comparison, in which a theoretical model developed in one context (segmented assimilation) can be compared in detail to the processes and their outcomes that are observed in another context. This model can illuminate otherwise puzzling divergences between Maghrebins and other second-generation populations in France. Some of the pessimistic predictions of the segmented-assimilation model have applied to some groups in France, where a pattern of durable inferiorization characterizes young people and produces the conditions that ignited the 2005 riots across the country.

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