ISBN:
9781785332296
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
224 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Europe 1
Keywords:
Sociology
Abstract:
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.
Description / Table of Contents:
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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