PERIODICALS

temporary visitors. Then, writes Begag, a researcher at the University of Lyon and himself an example of the phenomenon he describes, a second generation, largely born in France, appeared on the scene. These young "BeursJ'-the word rebeu (Arab) rendered in a slang called verlan- obviously are not going to return to North Africa. (Youngsters born of Algerian par- ents after 1963 even hold French citizen- ship.) Nor are they well prepared to make a place for themselves in France's h...