(AP Photo/Francois Mori, FILE) The Associated PressLE PECQ, France -- Death rates among immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa doubled in France and tripled in the Paris region at the height of France's coronavirus outbreak, according to a study from the French government's statistics agency released Tuesday. The INSEE agency's findings are the closest France has come yet to acknowledging with numbers the virus's punishing and disproportionate impact on the country's Black immigrants and the members of other systemically overlooked minority groups. French Black rights activists have long pushed for more and better ethnic-specific data. Skewed death rates were even more pronounced in Seine-Saint-Denis, the northern outskirt of Paris long troubled by poverty and overcrowding. Sociologist Brun said the study, by exposing limits in France’s knowledge about minorities, offered compelling arguments for broader research.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 07, 2020 18:33 UTC