Word: sabatot
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...supply ever since. Nearly 20% of Saint-Gilles's residents are jobless, and practically all of those live on state assistance. Roughly 25% of the town's population of nearly 12,000 are immigrant or first-generation French citizens--virtually all of North African origin. Most live in the Sabatot housing projects uphill from the town's center and are frequently reviled by older Saint-Gilles inhabitants as disorderly, uncivil and crime prone...
...Before, immigrants like the Spanish and Portuguese worked hard and integrated, but that's just not happening with the Arabs," says Yvonne Bovetto, 87, a retiree and native of Saint-Gilles. "Sabatot is the biggest problem for us today. Lots of people just feel overrun, fed up or both." As if in reply, Morit (who would give only his first name), an 18-year-old first-generation Saint-Gilles citizen of Moroccan descent, says, "We feel the racism and scorn everywhere...
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