Abstract
Yazid Sabeg, Commissioner on Diversity has announced that Nicolas Sarkozy will propose to submit to Parliament a bill 'to make a lawful measure of diversity' on the team at IFG actively working on the issue of segregation which is linked to that of the usefulness and legitimacy of such measures. On January 2009, Frederick Douzet convened an international symposium in Paris, entitled 'Together or separate: the challenges of the spatial concentration of immigrants in France, the United States and Great Britain' as part of a research project at the Institute University of France and the geopolitical axis of urban IFG. Moreover, a 'dictionary of the suburbs' written under the direction of Béatrice Giblin, by a small team of researchers trained in the French Institute of Geopolitics, will soon be published by Larousse, in which many articles address the issue of discrimination parochial and its impact on national cohesion. The debate is old, and has been revived by the will of Yazid Sabeg. This article lays out some steps in this reflection from the study of two conflicting representations of equality in France which revolve around this debate.
