France of the Little-Middles - A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

Informationen zum Autor Marie Cartier is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nantes, researcher at CENS (Nantes Sociology Center, CNRS-University of Nantes). She is a former Junior Member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She combines ethnography and history to study the transformations of the working-class through employment and living spaces. Klappentext The Poplars housing development in suburban Paris is home to what one resident called the "Little-Middles" - a social group on the tenuous border between the working- and middle- classes. In the 1960s The Poplars was a site of upward social mobility, which fostered an egalitarian sense of community among residents. This feeling of collective flourishing was challenged when some residents moved away, selling their homes to a new generation of upwardly mobile neighbors from predominantly immigrant backgrounds. This volume explores the strained reception of these migrants, arguing that this is less a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before. Zusammenfassung Explores the strained reception of the migrants in The Poplars, a housing development in suburban Paris that dates back to the mid-20th centrury. The authors examine tensions within the complex less as a product of racism and xenophobia than of anxiety about social class and the loss of a sense of community that reigned before. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations, Tables, and Maps Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. The "Good Old Days" Chapter 2. Children of the projects in quest of respectability Chapter 3. Suburban Youth Chapter 4. "They're very nice, but...": Encountering new foreign neighbors Chapter 5. A vote of the white lower classes? Appendices Appendix I: Interviews cited in the book Appendix II: Documents and sources Bibliography Index ...

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• Autori: Marie Cartier, Marie Coutant Cartier, Marie/ Coutant Cartier, Cartier Marie, Isabelle Coutant, Coutant Isabelle, Olivier Masclet, Masclet Olivier, Yasmine Siblot, Siblot Yasmine
• Editore: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9781789205206
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-520-6
• Pagine: 224
• Serie: Anthropology of Europe
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche; Sociology, France, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, Sociology; Anthropology (General); Urban Studies