Sarcelles

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FieldValue
nameSarcelles
commune statusSubprefecture and commune
imageSarcelles - Hotel de ville - Panoramique 01.jpg
captionThe Hôtel de Ville
map size270px
adjustable mapSarcelles_map.png
map captionLocation (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs
coordinates
image coat of armsBlason ville fr Sarcelles (Val-d'Oise).svg
arrondissementSarcelles
cantonSarcelles
intercommunalityCA Roissy Pays de France
mayorPatrick Haddad
term2020–2026
area km28.45
population
population date
population footnotes
INSEE95585
postal code95200
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Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles.

History

In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, vast housing estates were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs (French settlers from Algeria) and Jews who had left Algeria due to its war of independence. A few Jews from Egypt settled there after the Suez Crisis, and Jews from Tunisia and Morocco settled in Sarcelles after unrest and riots against Jews due to the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. The Hôtel de Ville was built as a private house and was completed in 1885.

Transport

Sarcelles is served by Garges–Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

It is also served by Sarcelles–Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris-Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighbouring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town centre of Sarcelles.

Population

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the commune has about 40,000 residents from 40 backgrounds.

Immigration

A substantial number of inhabitants of the town are pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa who immigrated to France in the 1960s. Sarcelles is also home to a vibrant Jewish community and the largest concentration of Assyrians in France.

Rahsaan Maxwell, author of Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, stated that compared with other French communities, the ethnic minorities in Sarcelles have more influence, so therefore "Sarcelles should not be considered representative of cities across metropolitan France". Residents believe that there is a "Sarcelles identity," meaning any ethnic group can be a part of the city, and they believe it lowers levels of crime and violence.

Compared with other parts of France, ethnic minorities in Sarcelles gained political power at a faster rate, with gains made in the 1980s instead of the 1990s and 2000s. Many politicians responded to minority demands sooner as many immigrants, especially Caribbeans and Sephardic Jews, had French citizenship. François Pupponi, the mayor in the 2000s dedicated monuments commemorating the histories of ethnic groups, Pupponi argued that this style is the best method of giving many ethnic groups one sense of community. Critics argued that funding groups catering to specific ethnic groups promotes segregation.

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Caribbeans

, 8.7% of the population was of Caribbean origin. , many of the ethnic Caribbean residents have French citizenship.

By the 1970s, Afro-Caribbeans became more interested in changing politics. By the 1980s, Guy Guyoubli, a local activist, organised an almost all-Caribbean protest list. Maxwell wrote that this demonstrated that Caribbeans had serious intentions of participating in the political system, even though there were no representatives elected from the lists. At the time, ethnic minorities across Metropolitan France were increasingly trying to influence the political system. The city's first ever two Caribbean councillors were elected in 1989. Around 1989, Raymond Lamontagne, the mayor, opened Metropolitan France's first ever Caribbean-orientated, council-funded community centre.

Maghrebian Muslims

In the 1950s and 1960s, Maghrebians began to arrive in Sarcelles. They developed political organisation in subsequent decades. Originally, the Muslims worshipped in converted makeshift areas, but, later, they built mosques for their community.

In the 1990s, Maghrebians were first elected to the commune council. Maxwell wrote that Maghrebians did not begin to obtain "key positions" until about 2012, as they had had "low turnout and weak community organisations".

Assyrian Christians

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Memorial_to_the_Assyrian_Genocide_in_Sarcelles,_France.jpg" caption="Memorial to the 1915 [[Assyrian genocide"] ::

A memorial to Assyro-Chaldean victims of the 1915 Assyrian genocide was dedicated in 2005. Part of the film The Last Assyrians features the Assyrian community, including members of the Chaldean Catholic Church.

Maghrebi Jews

During the 1960s, many Maghrebi Jews migrated to France, settling in Sarcelles. They were chiefly from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. Today, most of the Jewish residents have French citizenship.

During the peak immigration of Maghrebi Jews, they subscribed to a belief in assimilation and secularism. They had the North African belief of what Michel Wieviorka and Philippe Bataille, authors of The Lure of Anti-Semitism: Hatred of Jews in Present-Day France, describe as "a structuring role" that "does not cover all aspects of social life". Beginning in the 1980s, religion became more public and important. Wieviorka and Bataille stated that the previous North African practice is "becoming mixed up with the neo-Orthodox practices of the 'young people' for whom religion controls everything."

In 1983, a wave of councillors were elected who were Sephardic Jews from North Africa.

Crime

In 2012, Maxwell stated that "petty crime" and vandalism had become consistent issues. He said that "violent confrontations" among black migrants, Maghrebians, and Jews was "a recurring theme". He added that, by 2012, the commune had "developed a reputation as one of the more dangerous Paris suburbs." Maxwell wrote that local residents told him that the reputation was overblown.

Maxwell wrote that, during the 2005 French riots, a report concluded that the damage to buildings in Sarcelles was "relatively moderate". A later report concluded that, compared with most cities, Sarcelles had fewer days of severe riots. He also said that local residents characterised the damage as "not as bad as elsewhere and not as bad as one might have expected given Sarcelles's economic and ethnic profile."

International relations

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Twin towns – sister cities

Sarcelles is twinned with:

Co-operation agreement

Education

The commune has 19 public écoles maternelles (pre-schools/nurseries), 21 public écoles primaires (primary schools), six public collèges (junior high schools), two public lycées (senior high schools/sixth-form colleges), and two other educational institutions.

The Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus is located in Sarcelles."Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus à Sarcelles ." Val de France. Retrieved on 3 June 2014. "Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus 37 Boulevard Bergson 95200 Sarcelles" This library has over 60,000 items and is divided between an adults' section and a children's section. In addition the Espace Musique Mel Bonis is in Sarcelles.

Notable people

Notes

References

  • Maxwell, Rahsaan. Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs. Cambridge University Press, 5 March 2012. , 9781107378032.
  • Mulvey, M. (2016) “The Problem that Had a Name: French High-Rise Developments and the Fantasy of a Suburban Homemaker Pathology, 1954–73,” Gender & History, 28, no.1, pp. 179–200. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12182

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  6. Wieviorka and Bataille, p. 166-167. "The ChaldoAssyrian Community What saved Sarcelles and rid it of the reputation associated with 'Sarcel-litis was undoubtedly due to its Jewish population which, unaware of the drawbacks of concrete urbanisation, emphasised the positive[....]"
  7. Maxwell, ''Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nd4gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA171 171].
  8. Maxwell, ''Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nd4gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 170].
  9. authorised funding of organisations supporting specific ethnic groups such as running Arabic and Hindi language classes and permitted the use of public facilities for religious events.Maxwell, ''Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs'', p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nd4gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA170 170]-[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nd4gAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA171 171].
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  14. "Jumelages". Sarcelles.
  15. "Karabakh's Martakert and Sarcelles sign cooperation agreement".
  16. "[http://www.sarcelles.fr/famille-solidarite/enfance-3-11/212-les-ecoles-maternelles Les écoles maternelles] {{Webarchive. link. (3 March 2016 ." Sarcelles. Retrieved on May 22, 2017.)
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