Ethics and Religion issues

What does Ethnicity refer to ?

• A minority or group of people living in a host country

What do these ethnicities have ?

• A unique sense of cultural identity, and language and overall culture

What regions will I discuss in this essay ?

• Northern Ireland and France

How were Catholic seems in a mostly predominantly Northern Ireland?

• An ethnic minority

Where can ethnic tensions be traced back to ?

• The the Ulster plantation and colonization in the 17th and 18th centuries.

What happened during a plantation?

• Englishmen and Scotsmen moved over and began to settle in Ulster and take control of the economic and political positions.

What did the plantations lead to ?

• Distain and growing tension between Protestant's and Catholics

Where else can religious tensions be found ?

• France

Why did France become a key settling area for migrants

• Colonies allowed movement between themselves and their colonies

Where did hundreds of thousands of Algerian migrants settle ?

• Paris, Lyon, Marseille

What hindered these migrants upon arrival ?

• Lack of training or education

How much higher was unemployment in immigrants compared to non immigrants

• 5% Higher

What jobs did most of these migrants end up working in ?

• Low paying jobs

What happened in November 2005!

• 2 teenagers were accidentally electrocuted while fleeing from police inside a electricity station.

What happened as a result of the deaths ?

• Large scale riots

• State of emergency

• 200 Million in damages

• Government spent 30 billion to help promote integration