UID:
edocfu_9960890171402883
Format:
1 online resource (224 p.)
ISBN:
9781785332296
Series Statement:
Anthropology of Europe ; 1
Content:
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.
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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MAPS, ILLUSTRATIONS, AND TABLES --
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --
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INTRODUCTION. FROM PETIT-BOURGEOIS TO LITTLE-MIDDLE Studying Small Social Mobility --
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CHAPTER 1 THE “GOOD OLD DAYS” --
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CHAPTER 2 CHILDREN OF THE PROJECTS IN QUEST OF RESPECTABILITY --
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CHAPTER 3 SUBURBAN YOUTH --
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CHAPTER 4 “THEY’RE VERY NICE, BUT . . .”: ENCOUNTERING NEW FOREIGN NEIGHBORS --
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CHAPTER 5 A VOTE OF THE WHITE LOWER CLASSES? --
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APPENDIX 1 INTERVIEWS CITED IN THE BOOK --
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APPENDIX 2 DOCUMENTS AND SOURCES --
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BIBLIOGRAPHY --
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INDEX
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In English.
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781785332296
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781785332296?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781785332296
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