[LINK] "Intra-Arab discrimination in Dearborn"

[rfmcdpei]

I've been sitting on Banen Al-Sheemary's Open Democracy essay from March, talking about conflict and prejudice in the very diverse Arab community in the Michigan city of Dearborn, for some time. Conflicts between different groups, like the Lebanese who have accumulated the most social capital and various refugee groups which fare poorly, are sad

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[ext_267620]

The Lebanese seem to be a fairly successful group wherever they go, though Australia is a curious exception. They're one of Amy Chua's "market dominant minorities."

[timgueguen]

They did well enough in Eastern Canada that we've had two generations of Lebanese-Canadian premiers in Prince Edward Island, Joe Ghiz from 1986 to 1993, and his son Robert 2007 to 2015. The elder Ghiz was the first Canadian premier of non-European descent.

[robby]

Is the answer a "Committee Of Ethnic Fairness", with sweeping powers to give every group the same advantages? I think it's a horrible mistake to bring increasing numbers of Muslim refuges into the US, and especially to concentrate them into religious enclaves like Dearborn MI. Did you know there are neighborhoods in France where even the police are afraid do go?

[timgueguen]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/nogozones.asp

[robby]

Daniel Pipes explains:

They go by the euphemistic term Zones Urbaines Sensibles, or Sensitive Urban Zones, with the even more antiseptic acronym ZUS, and there are 751 of them as of last count. They are conveniently listed on one long webpage, complete with street demarcations and map delineations.

What are they? Those places in France that the French state does not fully control. They range from two zones in the medieval town of Carcassonne to twelve in the heavily Muslim city of Marseilles, with hardly a town in France lacking in its ZUS. The ZUS came into existence in late 1996 and according to a 2004 estimate, nearly 5 million people live in them.