The France of the Little-Middles: A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris (Anthropology of Europe #1)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781785332296
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781785332289, 9781785332289, 9781789205206
- Publisher:
- Berghahn Books, Incorporated
- Date of Addition:
- 07/31/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Marie Cartier, Isabelle Coutant, Olivier Masclet, Yasmine Siblot
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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