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Sarcelles
| Sarcelles | ||
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| Subprefecture and commune | ||
 Town hall | ||
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 Location (in red) within Paris inner and outer suburbs | ||
| Coordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956°N 2.3808°E / 48.9956; 2.3808Coordinates: 48°59′44″N 2°22′51″E / 48.9956°N 2.3808°E / 48.9956; 2.3808 | ||
| Country | France | |
| Region | Île-de-France | |
| Department | Val-d'Oise | |
| Arrondissement | Sarcelles | |
| Canton | Sarcelles | |
| Intercommunality | CA Roissy Pays de France | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor .mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal} (2001–2008) | François Pupponi | |
| Area1 | 8.45 km2 (3.26 sq mi) | |
| Population (2008)2 | 59,221 | |
| • Density | 7,000/km2 (18,000/sq mi) | |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) | |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) | |
INSEE/Postal code | 95585 /95200 | |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | ||
Sarcelles (French pronunciation: [saʁ.sɛl]) is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located 16.3 km (10.1 mi) from the center of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the Arrondissement of Sarcelles.
In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, HLMs were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs (French settlers from Algeria) and Jews, who left Algeria due to the Algerian 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 to the Yom Kippur War.
Contents
1 Transport
2 Population
2.1 Immigration
2.1.1 Caribbeans
2.1.2 Maghrebian Muslims
2.1.3 Assyrian and Chaldean
2.1.4 Sepharadic Jews
3 Crime
4 International relations
4.1 Twin towns – sister cities
5 Education
6 Notable people
7 See also
8 Notes
9 References
10 External links
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 neighboring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town centre of Sarcelles.
Population
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1793 | 1,600 | — |
| 1800 | 1,410 | −11.9% |
| 1806 | 1,588 | +12.6% |
| 1821 | 1,327 | −16.4% |
| 1831 | 1,615 | +21.7% |
| 1836 | 1,609 | −0.4% |
| 1841 | 1,735 | +7.8% |
| 1846 | 1,788 | +3.1% |
| 1851 | 1,622 | −9.3% |
| 1856 | 1,604 | −1.1% |
| 1861 | 1,781 | +11.0% |
| 1866 | 1,846 | +3.6% |
| 1872 | 1,682 | −8.9% |
| 1876 | 1,845 | +9.7% |
| 1881 | 2,001 | +8.5% |
| 1886 | 2,159 | +7.9% |
| 1891 | 2,118 | −1.9% |
| 1896 | 2,199 | +3.8% |
| 1901 | 2,384 | +8.4% |
| 1906 | 2,603 | +9.2% |
| 1911 | 2,796 | +7.4% |
| 1921 | 3,364 | +20.3% |
| 1926 | 5,032 | +49.6% |
| 1931 | 6,292 | +25.0% |
| 1936 | 7,083 | +12.6% |
| 1946 | 6,622 | −6.5% |
| 1954 | 8,397 | +26.8% |
| 1962 | 35,800 | +326.3% |
| 1968 | 51,674 | +44.3% |
| 1975 | 55,007 | +6.5% |
| 1982 | 53,630 | −2.5% |
| 1990 | 56,833 | +6.0% |
| 1999 | 57,871 | +1.8% |
| 2008 | 59,221 | +2.3% |
As of 2015[update] the commune has about 40,000 residents from 40 backgrounds.[1]
Immigration
As of 2007[update] the majority of the 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.[2]
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".[3] 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.[4]
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,[4] authorized funding of organizations supporting specific ethnic groups such as running Arabic and Hindi language classes[3] and permitted the use of public facilities for religious events.[5] Pupponi argued that this style is the best method of giving many ethnic groups one sense of community.[3] Critics argued that funding groups catering to specific ethnic groups promotes segregation.[4]
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Caribbeans
As of 2008[update], 8.7% of the population was of Caribbean origin.[6] As of 2012[update], many of the ethnic Caribbean residents have French citizenship.[4]
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.[7] At the time, ethnic minorities across Metropolitan France were increasingly trying to influence the political system.[7] 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-oriented, council-funded community centre.[4]
Maghrebian Muslims
In the 1950s and 1960s, Maghrebians began to arrive in Sarcelles. Political organisation came in subsequent decades. Originally, the Muslims worshipped in converted makeshift areas, but, later, purpose-built mosques appeared. In the 1990s, Maghrebians were first elected to the commune council. Maxwell wrote that Maghrebians began obtaining "key positions" only in the vicinity of 2012 due to "low turnout and weak community organisations".[8]
Assyrian and Chaldean
Memorial to the 1915 Assyrian and Chaldean genocide
A memorial to Assyro-Chaldean victims of the 1915 Assyrian genocide was dedicated in 2005.[3] Part of the film The Last Assyrians features the Assyrian and Chaldean community.
Sepharadic Jews
Sarcelles gained a large population of Sephardic Jews as a consequence of the post-World War II Jewish exodus from Arab and Muslim countries. As of 2012[update], many of the Jewish residents have French citizenship.[4]
During the peak immigration of Sephardic Jews, they subscribed to a belief in assimilation and secularism and 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".[9] Beginning in the 1980s, religion became more public and important, and 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."[9]
In 1983, there was a wave of councillors who were Sephardic Jews.[4]
Crime
In 2012, Maxwell stated that "petty crime" and vandalism had become consistent issues and that "violent confrontations" between black migrants, Maghrebians and Jews was "a recurring theme".[4] He added that, by 2012, the commune had "developed a reputation as one of the more dangerous Paris suburbs."[4] Maxwell wrote that local residents told him that the reputation was overblown.[4]
Maxwell wrote that, during the 2005 France Riots, a report concluded that the damage to buildings in Sarcelles was "relatively moderate" and that a later report concluded that, compared with most cities, Sarcelles had fewer days of severe riots.[4] He also stated 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."[4]
International relations
Direction of the nearest twin town
Twin towns – sister cities
Sarcelles is twinned with:
Netanya, Israel, since 1988[10][11]
Hattersheim, Germany, since 1987
Martakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, since 2015[12]
Education
The commune has 19 public écoles maternelles (preschools/nurseries),[13] 21 public écoles primaires (primary schools),[14] six public collèges (junior high schools), two public lycées (senior high schools/sixth-form colleges), and two other educational institutions.[15]
Collèges: Chantereine, Anatole-France, Évariste-Galois, Jean-Lurçat, Victor-Hugo, and Voltaire
Lycées: Lycée Polyvalent de La Tourelle and Lycée Polyvalent J.J. Rousseau
- Others: I.U.T (Institut universitaire de technologie), C.I.O (Centre d'information et d'orientation)
The Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus is located in Sarcelles.[16] This library has over 60,000 items and is divided between an adults' section and a children's section.[17] In addition the Espace Musique Mel Bonis is in Sarcelles.[18]
Notable people
Jonathan Assous, footballer[19]
Damien Cely, diver
Mohamed Dia, fashion designer
Didier Domi, footballer
Dimitri Foulquier, footballer
Eric Sabin, footballer
Younousse Sankhare, footballer
Jean-Manuel Thetis footballer
Frederic Thomas, footballer
Jonathan Tokple, footballer
Youssouf Toure, footballer
Steeve Yago, footballer
Riyad Mahrez, footballer
Wissam Ben Yedder, footballer
Amir Haddad, singer
Miss Dominique, singer
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, former mayor of Sarcelles
Les Twins, New Style dancers
See also
- Ministère AMER
- Passi
- Stomy Bugsy
- Communes of the Val-d'Oise department
The church, classified as a historic monument
Notes
^ "Sarcelles, ville ghetto ou cité modèle ?". France Télévisions. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2016-09-14..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em} "A 15 kilomètres de Paris, Sarcelles ses 40 000 habitants et ses 40 communautés différentes,[...]"
^ 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[....]"
^ abcd Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, p. 171.
^ abcdefghijkl Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, p. 170.
^ Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, p. 170-171.
^ Maxwell, Rahsaan Daniel. Tensions and Tradeoffs: Ethnic Minority Migrant Integration in Britain and France. ProQuest, 2008. p. 197.
ISBN 0549874585, 9780549874584.
^ ab Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, p. 172.
^ Maxwell, Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, p. 179.
^ ab Wieviorka and Bataille, p. 165.
^ Sarcelles - France, Netanya municipality website.
^ "Netanya - Twin Cities". Netanya Municipality. Archived from the original on 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2013-08-01.
^ Karabakh's Martakert and Sarcelles sign cooperation agreement
^ "Les écoles maternelles." Sarcelles. Retrieved on May 22, 2017.
^ "Les écoles primaires." Sarcelles. Retrieved on May 22, 2017.
^ "Jeunesse (11-25) Équipements scolaires superieurs." Sarcelles. Retrieved on May 22, 2017.
^ "Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus à Sarcelles." Val de France. Retrieved on 3 June 2014. "Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus
37 Boulevard Bergson 95200 Sarcelles"
^ "Bibliothèque Anna Langfus." Val de France. Retrieved on 3 June 2014. "Bibliothèque Intercommunale Anna Langfus 37 boulevard Henri Bergson (2ème étage) 95200 Sarcelles"
^ "Espace Musique Mel Bonis." Val de France Intercommunal Libraries. Retrieved on June 3, 2014. "Espace musique Mel Bonis à Sarcelles 1, Place de Navarre, Les Flanades 95200 Sarcelles"
^ Jonathan Assous, footballdatabase.eu
References
- Maxwell, Rahsaan. Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs. Cambridge University Press, 5 March 2012.
ISBN 1107378036, 9781107378032.
Wieviorka, Michel; Bataille, Philippe (2007). The lure of anti-Semitism: hatred of Jews in present-day France. BRILL. ISBN 9789004163379.
- INSEE
Association of Mayors of the Val d’Oise (in French)
- 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
External links
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sarcelles. |
Official website (in French)
Mérimée database - Cultural heritage (in French)
Land use (IAURIF)[permanent dead link](in English)
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