Sarcelles () is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Sarcelles is a sub-prefecture of the Val-d'Oise department and the seat of the arrondissement of Sarcelles.

History

In the south of the commune, during the 1950s and 1960s, vast housing estates were built in order to accommodate pieds-noirs (French settlers from Algeria) and Jews who had left Algeria due to its war of independence. A few Jews from Egypt settled there after the Suez Crisis, and Jews from Tunisia and Morocco settled in Sarcelles after unrest and riots against Jews due to the Six-Day War and the Yom Kippur War. The Hôtel de Ville was built as a private house and was completed in 1885.

Transport

Sarcelles is served by Garges–Sarcelles station on Paris RER line D.

It is also served by Sarcelles–Saint-Brice station on the Transilien Paris-Nord suburban rail line. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighbouring commune of Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt, lies in fact very near the town centre of Sarcelles.

Population

Immigration

A substantial number of inhabitants of the town are pieds-noirs from Northwest Africa who immigrated to France in the 1960s. Sarcelles is also home to a vibrant Jewish community and the largest concentration of Assyrians in France.

Rahsaan Maxwell, author of Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs, stated that compared with other French communities, the ethnic minorities in Sarcelles have more influence, so therefore "Sarcelles should not be considered representative of cities across metropolitan France". Residents believe that there is a "Sarcelles identity," meaning any ethnic group can be a part of the city, and they believe it lowers levels of crime and violence.

Compared with other parts of France, ethnic minorities in Sarcelles gained political power at a faster rate, with gains made in the 1980s instead of the 1990s and 2000s. Many politicians responded to minority demands sooner as many immigrants, especially Caribbeans and Sephardic Jews, had French citizenship. François Pupponi, the mayor in the 2000s dedicated monuments commemorating the histories of ethnic groups, Pupponi argued that this style is the best method of giving many ethnic groups one sense of community. , many of the ethnic Caribbean residents have French citizenship. At the time, ethnic minorities across Metropolitan France were increasingly trying to influence the political system.

Assyrian Christians

thumb|Memorial to the 1915 [[Assyrian genocide]]

A memorial to Assyro-Chaldean victims of the 1915 Assyrian genocide was dedicated in 2005. Beginning in the 1980s, religion became more public and important. Wieviorka and Bataille stated that the previous North African practice is "becoming mixed up with the neo-Orthodox practices of the 'young people' for whom religion controls everything."

  • Netanya, Israel, since 1988
  • Hattersheim, Germany, since 1987

Co-operation agreement

  • Martakert, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, since 2015

Education

The commune has 19 public écoles maternelles (pre-schools/nurseries), 21 public écoles primaires (primary schools), six public collèges (junior high schools), two public lycées (senior high schools/sixth-form colleges), and two other educational institutions.

  • Collèges: Chantereine, Anatole-France, Évariste-Galois, Jean-Lurçat, Victor Hugo, and Voltaire
  • Lycées: Lycée Polyvalent de La Tourelle and Lycée Polyvalent J.J. Rousseau
  • Others: I.U.T (Institut universitaire de technologie), C.I.O (Centre d'information et d'orientation)

The Bibliothèque intercommunale Anna Langfus is located in Sarcelles. This library has over 60,000 items and is divided between an adults' section and a children's section. In addition the Espace Musique Mel Bonis is in Sarcelles.

Notable people

  • Jonathan Assous, French-Israeli footballer
  • Wissam Ben Yedder, French footballer
  • Stomy Bugsy, French rapper and actor
  • Damien Cely, French diver
  • Sarah-Léonie Cysique, French judoka
  • Mohamed Dia, Franco-Malian fashion designer
  • Didier Domi, French footballer and coach
  • Andy Faustin, French-born Haitian footballer
  • Dimitri Foulquier, Guadeloupean footballer
  • Amir Haddad, French-Israeli singer-songwriter
  • Les Twins, twin French hip-hop dancers
  • Riyad Mahrez, Algerian footballer
  • Derek Mazou-Sacko, French footballer
  • Miss Dominique, French singer
  • Éric Sabin, French footballer
  • Younousse Sankharé, Senegalese footballer
  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn, French economist and politician
  • Mathys Tel, French footballer
  • Jean-Manuel Thetis, French footballer
  • Frédéric Thomas, French footballer
  • Jonathan Tokplé, French-born Togolese footballer
  • Steeve Yago, French-born Burkinabé footballer

See also

  • Ministère AMER
  • Passi
  • Stomy Bugsy
  • Communes of the Val-d'Oise department

thumb|The church, classified as a historic monument

Notes

References

  • Maxwell, Rahsaan. Ethnic Minority Migrants in Britain and France: Integration Trade-Offs. Cambridge University Press, 5 March 2012. , 9781107378032.
  • Mulvey, M. (2016) “The Problem that Had a Name: French High-Rise Developments and the Fantasy of a Suburban Homemaker Pathology, 1954–73,” Gender & History, 28, no.1, pp. 179–200. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12182
  • Official website
  • Association of Mayors of the Val d'Oise