ABSTRACT
Most of the young people are French citizens and technically enjoy the collective civil, political, and social rights that are an integral part of citizenship: equal treatment under the law, equal opportunity in education, employment, housing and access to public institutions. There is in France, despite the Constitution and the laws of the Republic a differential management of the 'second generation' or the 'third generation' of immigrants whose foreign origins continued to function as a permanent disqualifying basis. Republican principles, at least when instrumentalized as such, exert great violence on ethnic minorities. Those with some sign of foreign belonging are not acknowledged in their dignity, on contrary they are disqualified as threats to the Republic. The spectrum of 'communitarianism' is founded on this intransigent use of republican principles. Communitarianism can be dangerous if it involves retreating into an exclusive space with its own forms of organization countering the basic principles of the national community, in this case the French nation.
