Closed Environments and Living Choices Inside French Social Housing
Urban segregation in France, as in the United States, is an issue usually framed in sociological terms, and so approached through established perspectives and themes like social exclusion, juvenile delinquency, unemployment, socio-economic instability in households, integration, etc. Concepts such as a sense of place, specific geographical realities and the particular status of residents in French social housing seem to have been overlooked in analyses of the fundamentals of this situation. In response to this deficiency, this article proposes a content analysis of the lyrics used by French rappers, as a means to illustrate the closeness and sensitivity attained inside social housing suburbs in France.