The France of the Little-Middles

A Suburban Housing Development in Greater Paris

von Marie Cartier, Olivier Masclet, Isabelle Coutant

226 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Anthropology of Europe
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Gesellschaft und Kultur, allgemein Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten Städte, Stadtgemeinden / Stadtleben
• ISBN: 9781785332289
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.08.2016
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: Berghahn Books