Urban Stories: La Haine (Contextual)

Here is an ABC news feature on the Paris Riots. It provides some good contextual information for the key issues and debates surrounding 'La Haine'. It discusses the social and political climate of the times and will help your understanding of the Urban Stories topic.

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In 1974, the government started limiting immigration, and the influx of immigrants dropped to 74,000 per year in 1997 from a high of 220,000 per year in the early 1980s.

Many of the men who had come to France to work brought over their wives and kids to live with them in their adopted country. Immigrants -- especially those from Africa -- had many more children than native French citizens, and often more than one wife (a 1993 law cracked down on polygamous marriages).