Multiculturalism, Conflict and Accommodation: The Relationships among Muslims, Jews, and Chinese in Two Parisian Neighborhoods
Dr. David Kaplan
Professor, Department of Geography
Kent State University
All are invited!
Friday, November 4, 2016
Temple 345, 3:30 pm
Abstract: In the last 50 years, France has experienced massive waves of immigrants from countries in Africa and Asia, with 40% of the national total settling in the Paris area. This immigration has been quite influential and has sparked concern among many French nationals. In this presentation, I look at how immigration has shaped Paris and created distinct cultural communities. I discuss the relationships among Muslim Arabs, West African, Jews, and Chinese as some of the main groups reshaping Paris. I focus on two distinctive neighborhoods – the Goutte d’Or and Belleville – to document the ethnic landscape, ethnic businesses, and ethnic interactions.
Biography: Dr. David Kaplan is a Professor of Geography at Kent State University where he has taught since 1995. He has written some 60 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, and has also publishedSegregation in Cities, Nested Identities, Boundaries and Place, Human Geography, Urban Geography, Landscapes of the Ethnic Economy, Perthes World Atlas, the four volume Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, and two forthcoming books: Scaling Identities and Imprinting Ethnicity. Dr. Kaplan’s research interests include nationalism, borderlands, ethnic and racial segregation, urban and regional development, housing finance, and sustainable transportation. Dr. Kaplan has directly supervised over 40 graduate students and teaches courses on many different aspects of human geography. He edits the Geographical Review and National Identities.