bidonville

Life in a bidonville is something you never forget.

A former occupant recalled the emotional legacy of life in the Nanterre bidonville even after its destruction:

'In a year, maybe two, we could make Le Pinot look like a Marseilles bidonville.

Maurane interprète Bidonville dans Acoustic !

However this is partly an exaggerated stereotype, as the largest bidonville of the Paris area in the 1960s (Champigny-sur-Marne) was populated mostly by Portuguese.

Returning to his dirty camper in a Bidonville, he is approached and blackmailed by Deathstroke into joining Titans East.

In February 2007, bulldozers destroyed a bidonville in Bobigny, a northeastern suburb of Paris, where 266 Romanian and Bulgarian citizens had been registered.

Another huge bidonville exists near Calais, inhabited by migrants from the Middle-East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa hoping to get to the United Kingdom.

Near one entrance to the bidonville - tin-can city - where the paved road ends and the dirt track and open sewers begin, are carefully printed a few simple words: "Nothing Has Changed."

In his words and his demeanor, the President who spoke today presented a sharply different image from that of the radical priest who rose from the misery of the capital's Bidonville shantytowns.

In 1964, the Loi Debré sought to eliminate bidonvilles, and the urban formation was erroneously thought to have disappeared in the 1970s with the transformation of Nanterre's bidonville into a modern city.

He creates works in themes such as Bidonville, Stilthouse, My Home My House My Stilthouse, View and Chaos; broadening further on his studies of livability in today's context.

Following the "One Year Later" jump, Dinah trades life experiences with Lady Shiva in hopes of softening the warrior, undertaking a harsh training regimen in an unidentified Vietnamese bidonville, or shantytown.

At what for nearly two months was a refugee camp here for as many as 11,500 Iraqis, army bulldozers graded the expanse of sand that had once been a bidonville of tents, cardboard shacks and corrugated steel compounds.

Despite persistent attempts to rehouse individuals living in bidonvilles (and the more fragmented "micro-bidonvilles"), they remain a reality in places like Villeurbanne (Lyon), where a bidonville contains 500 persons of Roma origins, a third of them children.

The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of 'how we have always done things', than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville.

Thus, Azouz Begag, the delegate minister for Equal Opportunities in the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin of the UMP party, wrote an autobiographic novel, Le Gone du Chaâba, about his experiences while living in a bidonville in the outskirts of Lyon.