The insertion of Roma in Sénart Project (2000–2007): a local minority-targeted affirmative action following in the footsteps of the French republican citizenship model

Between 2000 and 2007, 34 Romanian families living in shanty towns in a Parisian suburb participated in a local group-specific social integration project. A socio-anthropological study was undertaken 2 years after it ended, including documentary analysis of its archives, interviews with its beneficiaries and the professionals involved and ethnography among three families with distinct integration histories. Using the analysis of the project’s implementation and outcomes, this article sheds light on how exceptional acts of minority identity recognition – sporadic and on a case-by-case basis – were ultimately functional in the performance of a republican redistributive policy on individual access to rights and resources based on the denial of racialised inequalities.     

Expanding the Spanish high-speed railway network

This paper presents a model for the expansion of transportation networks incorporating specific requirements about population coverage, budget constraints, intermediate goals and origin–destination flows, among others. The model is applicable to the current expansion project of the Spanish high-speed railway network that has been proposed by the Spanish Government under the program Strategic Planning of Infrastructure and Transport (see source [c]).