 Promoting the neighbourhood through religious diversity 
Historically, the neighbourhoods of Goutte d’Or and Raval have welcomed marginalized populations and as a result have long been stigmatised. With the aim of reversing this situation, administrations have planned important transformations since the 1980s. While more visible in urban planning and housing, government actions have also reached other areas. They facilitated gentrification and been the basis of a revaluation of the image of these neighbourhoods. Cultural and religious diversity has been inserted in this process and converted into an object of institutional promotion. Although the manifestations of this religious pluralism are causes for conflicts inscribed within social relations of otherness, a legitimated and consensual collective idea of diversity is mobilized in the framework of urban revalorization. This article examines these discourses and policies regarding the particular case of Islam on the basis of data from a survey conducted in both neighbourhoods from 2016 to 2018.