evidence: The view offered by ethnography with respect to the Bushinengue inhabitants thus allows us to identify the contours of a housing administration anchored in a French cultural reference framework, which reproduces a racialized social and spatial order. The broad outlines of housing policy are enacted by French laws, applied locally by public-service executives who are often white. These executives spend their working lives moving from one overseas territory to another, exporting their conceptions of the so-called "local" populations and benefiting from particularly wide margins of action. These policies are applied by local Creole middle-class employees, who reproduce the colorist hierarchies. In the case of Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, in the face of stigmatization, inhabitants may develop critical attitudes and a certain reserve towards representatives of the state, their policies, or the way they treat citizens. Tenants also continue to deploy their own spatial and residential practices, which defy administrative boundaries and extend across both sides of the Maroni, within networks of extended kinship. [...] - Léobal, C. 2017. « Osu », « baraques » et « batiman ». Redessiner les frontières de l’urbain à Soolan (Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni, Guyane), PhD thesis in sociology, Université Paris-Descartes.