The center of Paris and other French cities may be grand, but many immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere live in squalid ghettos on the outskirts. Although the precise rate of unemployment for particular ethnic groups is not known (French law precludes collecting data by ethnic classification), anecdotal evidence suggests much higher levels of joblessness for immigrants and their descendants.
法国巴黎和其他大城市的市中心区堪称富丽堂皇，但来自北非和其它地方的许多移民都蜗居在肮脏的郊区贫民窟里。尽管特定族群的准确失业率没有定数（法国法律禁止以种族分类来收集数据），但非正式证据显示移民及其后代的失业率要更高。