The comparison between the French student protests in 2006 and the riots of French immigrant suburbs in 2005 demonstrate that both had grievances with the current economic model of France, but had different things at stake. The students protested because they did not want to be part of the precarious employment of neoliberal capitalism while the immigrants were already excluded from any employment opportunity. They were united by their need to stop the current trend in the society and economy that would make it easier to discard citizens as resources to be used by the capitalist system.