re: Islamic behavior based on population size

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They should show up in your research.

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That's the problem. They don't show up. The design of the banlieus in the 60s contributed to the ghettoization, but that ghettoization applied to every one of France's immigrant communities. So the banlieus changed in demographics. First they were full of Spanish and Italian groups, then Mahgrebi's, and now Subsaharan Africans. The banlieu I named, Clichy-sous-Bois, resembles this pattern too. That's not to say that there aren't groups that remain in the banlieus, but that has as much to do with French insistence on isolating these places, as they did with Clichy-sous-Bois until they built a rail or tramcar line ( I forget which). Before, I think there was only one or two roads into the the commune, N403 and N370. Contrast this with St. Denis, a former industrial suburb that is more affluent, with many more infrastructure links to the center of Paris.