Abstract
Abstract For some years the Goutte d'Or district of central Paris has been generally acknowledged as one of the main areas of ethnic minority concentration in France. However the characteristics of the district remain largely unknown to outsiders, despite recent press coverage which, in the UK, has drawn comparisons with certain districts of London. Although residential concentrations of minority groups are very high, the general image of the Goutte d'Or as a North African quarter misrepresents the much more complex intermixture of ethnicities actually present. This paper shows that the residential function of the district is today of lesser importance than its role as the centre of ethnic minority commerce. This function has been developed over the last forty years through successive waves of migrant arrivals, each adding to both the ethnic and the commercial diversity of the neighbourhood. The future evolution of the district is, however, much more uncertain, since it is now being subjected to major urb...
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